HBD Ada!

HBD Ada!

[Jeffrey R.Carter]

Happy birthday, Ada, born this day in 1815/1980.

-- 
Jeff Carter
“C was designed to be written; Ada was designed to be read.”
Jean Ichbiah
171

Re: HBD Ada!

[bill]

On Sunday, December 10, 2023 at 8:06:24 AM UTC-5, Jeffrey R.Carter wrote:
> Happy birthday, Ada, born this day in 1815/1980. 
> 
> -- 
> Jeff Carter 
> “C was designed to be written; Ada was designed to be read.” 
> Jean Ichbiah 
> 171
Nice to see someone remembered the old gal. By the way, what happened to this site. So goes the world I guess.

Re: HBD Ada!

[Simon Wright]

bill <bill.thomas.ghc@gmail.com> writes:

>                                 By the way, what happened
> to this site. So goes the world I guess.

If you're using Google Groups: sex, betting, and pirate videos. And
disengagement by Google.

If you're using a real news server (e.g eternal-september, aioe(?)) the
spam leakage is fairly minor.

Re: HBD Ada!

[Jeffrey R.Carter]

On 2023-12-11 14:04, Simon Wright wrote:
> bill <bill.thomas.ghc@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>                                  By the way, what happened
>> to this site. So goes the world I guess.
> 
> If you're using Google Groups: sex, betting, and pirate videos. And
> disengagement by Google.
> 
> If you're using a real news server (e.g eternal-september, aioe(?)) the
> spam leakage is fairly minor.

news.eternal-september.org, Thunderbird, and some simple filters, and it's 
practically nil.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"What did concern with 'efficiency' ...
produce, besides a bigger, slower, and
more obscure program?"
Elements of Programming Style
199

Re: HBD Ada!

[Chris Townley]

On 11/12/2023 22:05, Jeffrey R.Carter wrote:
> On 2023-12-11 14:04, Simon Wright wrote:
>> bill <bill.thomas.ghc@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>                                  By the way, what happened
>>> to this site. So goes the world I guess.
>>
>> If you're using Google Groups: sex, betting, and pirate videos. And
>> disengagement by Google.
>>
>> If you're using a real news server (e.g eternal-september, aioe(?)) the
>> spam leakage is fairly minor.
> 
> news.eternal-september.org, Thunderbird, and some simple filters, and 
> it's practically nil.
> 

Eternal September is fine, but I find Thunderbird unusable. Since the 
latest batch of spam, I have to close it and open again to read anything 
- multiple times

I keep trying others to run under Windoze, but so far no good. Might try 
a Linux offering - I always have a few raspberry Pis hangins around, as 
well as a nice fast Ubuntu server

-- 
Chris

Re: HBD Ada!

[Simon Wright]

Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk> writes:

> I keep trying others to run under Windoze, but so far no good. Might
> try a Linux offering - I always have a few raspberry Pis hangins
> around, as well as a nice fast Ubuntu server

Emacs? I know many see it as a world of wierd ...

Re: HBD Ada!

[Stéphane Rivière]

> Eternal September is fine, but I find Thunderbird unusable. Since the 
> latest batch of spam, I have to close it and open again to read anything 
> - multiple times

I've been using TB and eternal-septembre for years (as have many others 
here) with no worries and (almost) no spam. So this is strange. I hope 
you find out what's wrong.

-- 
Stéphane Rivière
Ile d'Oléron - France