A "green" distro of Ubuntu?

[chris]

On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 00:10 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 03/07/11 23:44, Avi wrote:
> > Ric Moore wrote:
> >
> >> yeah, blowing off floppy disks reflects that notion that everyone has
> >> a DVD and fiber optic cable. Ric
> > There's some irony in an untrimmed email complaining about people
> > forgetting that some of us are on dialup :)
> 
> Yep, and it isn't a laughing matter.
> 
> Back in the "old days" when the Sysop of a BBS had to pay out of his/her 
> pocket for the cost of phone calls - often at long distance or timed 
> called charges - to collect /send mail it was the accepted practice for 
> messages to be trimmed to the bare-bone when replying, for example. 
> Everything was done on dial-up with baud speeds at 300, 1200, 2400, 9600 
> bps.
> 
> But now this is not known to most people and so they clog up the 'net 
> with useless horse manure.
> 
> BC
> 
> -- 
> I guess reality is what you make of it.
> 
> 

300 Hell that was fast over this way.  128, and the thing dropped out
all the time.  You had to get up at 2am to get anything through
Still got some of my old modems.
-- 
Cheers the Kiwi