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You should check out how that looks in WebCit. Each ">" is being interpreted as a nesting level of blockquote, so "Da Wizzzzz" appears in a bunch of concentric frames in a fade-out pattern. It's very L33T.
Amusingly, I don't think I ever had a war signature.
I did do some ANSI animation art of a minimal sort, but that was about it.
Nowadays we have Internet email where people have signatures that are longer than most emails, including a image with their company logo, an unenforceable privacy disclaimer, etc. etc.
"This email is intended for its recipient only. If you are not the intended recipient, there's probably nothing that we can do about it, since you haven't signed a non-disclosure agreement, but maybe we can threaten you with our big scary lawyers."
Yeah, I definitely preferred Citadel's implicit no-sig policy.
We maintained a focus on conversation, not presentation.
There were a few cries of outrage, particularly from a fellow named Five Fresh Fish who found any amount of quoting intolerable. I attempted to counter by recommending that people keep quoted lines to an absolute minimum. That has repeatedly failed over the years. :(
I liked the use of the '^' to indicate which message you were responding to. '^^^' meant three messages above.
Citadel86 had logoff messages that one local BBS used for quotes and random nonsense. It isn't message quoting but I like the random crap, not unlike the MOTD program on Unix/Linux
Thu Jun 06 2019 13:04:59 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ UncensoredCitadel culture also had a no-quotes policy. I am personally responsible for ruining that, by implementing the Quote function when no one else ever had done so on a Citadel before.
There were a few cries of outrage, particularly from a fellow named Five Fresh Fish who found any amount of quoting intolerable. I attempted to counter by recommending that people keep quoted lines to an absolute minimum. That has repeatedly failed over the years. :(
I'm not a fan of quotes on Citadel - but you've asked for people to use it, so I do. I'm not a Luddite. Things move on and evolve. I use quotes everywhere else... in fact, I thought I'd use the Telnet client most for Citadel - but I find that the web client is more evolved. It isn't quite Citadel... it is an evolved version of it. So were Novu86 and Asgard86 compared to Citadel on Z80.
Which is why I think we should be able to upvote. Quotes are something modern users want to have. Not me... but younger users. So are upvotes.
Right now, your mind is trying to justify how adding quotes was different than adding upvotes - and struggling...
Because it isn't different. It is just a natural evolution...
And ... one more public shaming for people who habitually quote an entire message instead of quoting just enough to establish some context.
Sat Jun 08 2019 16:28:57 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored
And ... one more public shaming for people who habitually quote an entire message instead of quoting just enough to establish some context.
I'm still getting the hang of this web editor. :D
And I'd been drinking that night, I believe. It has been a crazy few weeks.
Fri Jun 14 2019 12:26:07 AM EDT from ParanoidDelusions @ Uncensored
Sat Jun 08 2019 16:28:57 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar @ Uncensored
And ... one more public shaming for people who habitually quote an entire message instead of quoting just enough to establish some context.I'm still getting the hang of this web editor. :D
And I'd been drinking that night, I believe. It has been a crazy few weeks.
Wat? https://i.imgur.com/IppKJ.jpg
Mon Jun 24 2019 23:56:26 EDT from ax25 @ Uncensored
Not so much that I've seen giant rubber ducks floating in the bay. But then again, I live in Phoenix - so they COULD be there. How would I know?
Verizon went with BPON and later GPON because their "regular" phone service required ATM. Now here's the fun part. If you subscribe to "FiOS Digital Voice" they run it on SIP instead of ATM ... and believe it or not, when they do that, it falls under different regulations, even though it's the same phone company terminating service on the same equipment!
Apparently the "FiOS Digital Voice" service is subject to the same regulations as any VoIP provider, like Vonage (are they still around?). Much more lenient SLA, no guarantee that E911 is going to work, the whole kit & caboodle. But you also get a typical set of VoIP features such as simultaneous ringing, follow-me, etc.
I think most people would be happy with just an Internet connection and nothing else, but they don't want to sell that.
${work} is launching a project like this now -- unifying some 10-15 formerly independent networks into a single ASN.
I should go back in time 30 years and tell myself that by 2020 I will have the equivalent of 22 T3's directly to UUNET. :)
I am now once again a customer of Ace Innovative Networks, formerly known as Acecape. They're still super nice, and super friendly to hobbyists and hackers.
Back when DSL was more common, they were famous for being the provider that gave you a static IP address and permission to run servers. Hobbyists and hackers really loved them.
At the moment, my hosting arrangements are coming to an end, so I'm moving my servers back home. I signed up for their "Static IP VPN" service, which is $15/month for residential customers, $25/month for business customers.
At this service level, they assign a /29 *public* IPv4 network to the inside of your router, and a /64 IPv6 if you want it. They send you a router (mine will be a Cisco 871) which you plug in behind your existing router (or directly to your ONT or cable modem) and at the entry-level price point they will tunnel up to 5 Mbps to you.
Higher bandwidth and more addresses are available for additional cost, of course.
Since I only have one computer, what I think I'm going to do is install a second ethernet interface into it, connect that to the Ace router, and attach it to a bridge group for my virtual machines with no IP address on the host.