If it werent for me and jaime nobody would have to go to facebook On Sun, Jul 25, 2021, 11:58 PM Jan-GAMs <j.vank...@grnacres.net> wrote:
> I sent a few of those too. A little more expensive than a letter with a > stamp. Seems it was like $7 for a short sentence. > > Hell no I won't go FB. > On 7/25/21 10:31 AM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote: > > That got me thinking of telegrams. I only sent one. I was a teenager > trying to contact a former girlfriend. > > But we received a few and in my inlaws stuff we found dozens that were > sent to them when they got married. > They all had that little strip of paper glued onto the form for each line > of the message. I used to think someone was cutting those strips out of a > printout. Nope, the printers actually printed on the little strip of > paper. > > And in their world, “full stop” meant period. And a period got charged > the same rate as a word. > > Someone had the glorious job of gluing strips onto forms all day long. > > Nice that you could send a note to someone and Western Union had to track > them down and deliver it. Better than repeatedly trying to make person to > person telephone calls. It really did have an email attribute that it was > fast but could be launched and not worried about. > > The local newspaper office had one of those wire service printers running > constantly. Those printouts were on long rolls of newsprint type paper. > Slightly yellow. I think I owned one at one time when I was trying to get > into RTTY as a ham. KSR48 I think. It was an ASCII machine where earlier > ones were BAUDOT. > > *From:* Chuck McCown via AF > *Sent:* Sunday, July 25, 2021 10:06 AM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group > *Cc:* ch...@go-mtc.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] list dead? > > I think those that are FB enthusiasts left a long time ago. I have never > been on FB other than when my wife tells me that someone is posting > something I should see. I will go there and see someone sent me a message > 6 months ago. I apologize and give them my email address. > > So odd that younger folk look at email as antiquated. But then, none of > them have ever sent or received a telegram... > > *From:* Bill Prince > *Sent:* Sunday, July 25, 2021 9:08 AM > *To:* af@af.afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] list dead? > > > If the people on this list went to FB, I would have to say adios. > > > > bp > <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> > > On 7/25/2021 5:25 AM, Timothy Steele wrote: > > Everyone seems to have moved on to the WISP talk Facebook group > > There are still a good number on this list though > > > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2021, 12:45 PM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I tried that and got arrested for desecration of a corpse >> >> On Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 5:27 PM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Necromancy required to resurrect? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> AF mailing list >>> AF@af.afmug.com >>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> AF@af.afmug.com >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > > ------------------------------ > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > ------------------------------ > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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