A "green" distro of Ubuntu?

[Ric Moore]

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.


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"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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