[GNC] GnuCash list: gmane

[Adrien Monteleone]

Now *that* is dedication! It sure beats laden swallows and smoke signals though.

Regards,
Adrien

> On Jul 7, 2020 w28d189, at 12:31 PM, david whiting <dw at davidwhiting.me.uk> wrote:
> 
> You beat me to it! I was going to make the same reference. So here's
> my contribution: In 1994 I was in Tanzania working at the main
> hospital in the country. To send email I think I used a simple text
> client and saved emails to a floppy disk. I would then take them over
> to the library where the guy who ran the mailserver would copy them to
> the server (a 386 running redhat). We would then wait for the Satelife
> satellite to pass overhead. We normally had a 10 minute connection
> window and he would have to adjust the dish to get the signal right.
> Then there would be an agonising wait as we slowly watched each email
> transfer. Then to get a reply I would come back the next day.