The Baha'i Studies Listserv Once upon a time, even tho’ the internet technically existed, it was not generally available, not even to all gov’t agencies. Don’t remember his name, but he was a Baha’i working for a state department of agriculture extension service, maybe for Wisconsin. How pleased he was to be able to use FidoNet to send msgs to the hinterlands of Africa. With a little luck, they could ask a question via FidoNet and have an answer in as little as 3-4 days, compared to, possibly, that may weeks by conventional mail.
Don C On Jan 14, 2014, at 2:19 21PM, Tim Nolan <tnola...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Compared to what we had 40 years ago -U.S. Postal mail - the paper kind, .... > compared to that, the internet is truly marvelously swift. > > It used to take a week or more to mail a letter from the U.S. to Japan. > Now it takes maybe 5 minutes. > ----------- It doesn't matter whether the sun shines if you never go outside. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-736748-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
