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From: john@basser.oz (John Mackin)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: words to live by
Message-ID: <385@basser.oz>
Date: Sun, 21-Jul-85 16:22:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: basser.385
Posted: Sun Jul 21 16:22:59 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 23-Jul-85 04:39:17 EDT
References: <740@utcs.UUCP> <205@redwood.UUCP> <5800@utzoo.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@basser.oz (John Mackin)
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Science, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
Lines: 16
Summary: Bad Move, Human!

In article <5800@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:

> Netnews via magtape is not a strange notion at all; I believe the
> Australians get most of their newsgroups that way.

Ahem.  We DID, back in about 1980.  Now they come to Melbourne
via X.25 between seismo and munnari, the same way this brief
note is reaching you.

    ``We may be down under -- but we're not down and out!''

John Mackin, Basser Department of Computer Science,
	     University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
UUCP: ...!decvax!mulga!basser.oz!john
      ...!seismo!munnari!basser.oz!john		(much faster)
ARPA: munnari!basser.oz!john@SEISMO.ARPA	(or should that be .CSS.GOV?)