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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer museum-was: ihnp4 powered down
Keywords: computer donation ihnp4 museum
Message-ID: <3962@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 27 Feb 89 20:44:37 GMT
References: <244@att.ATT.COM> <1950@cucstud.UUCP>
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath)
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In article <1950@cucstud.UUCP> wb8foz@cucstud.UUCP (David Lesher,Guest) writes:
}In article <244@att.ATT.COM> dhp@att.ATT.COM (Price) writes
}about donating to the computer museum.
}Hmm, it seems to me the computer museum is the ideal place to
}provide good publicity to the net. Many visitors go there
}every year. While some are on our advanced level ;-}}, others
}may know little or nothing of the Wonderful World of Usenet. 
}A terminal with 'rn' running all the time,
}properly set up (no alt.conspiracy or talk.bizarre ;-}) would
}provide great exposure to the fact Internet does something
}other than feed worms.
}	Besides some newsreader hacks (such as resetting the
}.newsrc file for each visitor) all that is needed is a
}terminal, a friendly local port, and a modem.
}Any comments?

It would have to be a read-only interface.  Not many people are going to
hang around the museum for the typical one day to three weeks net
propagation and response time.  Besides, do we really want the maunderings
of the great unwashed taking up net bandwidth?

(Ok, so we'll create talk.computer.museum and let them scribble their
"Kilroy was here" graffitti on it.  We won't tell them it's local to the
museum's machine (-:{ ).

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