Yep
On Wed, Jul 28, 2021, 8:59 AM James Howard <ja...@litewire.net> wrote:
> You and Jaime are on facebook?
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> *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of * Steve Jones
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 27, 2021 7:44 PM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] list dead?
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> If it werent for me and jaime nobody would have to go to facebook
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> On Sun, Jul 25, 2021, 11:58 PM Jan-GAMs <j.vank...@grnacres.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Hell no I won't go FB.
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> On 7/25/21 10:31 AM, Chuck McCown via AF wrote:
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> That got me thinking of telegrams. I only sent one. I was a teenager
> trying to contact a former girlfriend.
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> But we received a few and in my inlaws stuff we found dozens that were
> sent to them when they got married.
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> 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.
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> And in their world, “full stop” meant period. And a period got charged
> the same rate as a word.
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> Someone had the glorious job of gluing strips onto forms all day long.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> *From:* Chuck McCown via AF
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> *Sent:* Sunday, July 25, 2021 10:06 AM
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> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
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> *Cc:* ch...@go-mtc.com
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> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] list dead?
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> 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.
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> So odd that younger folk look at email as antiquated. But then, none of
> them have ever sent or received a telegram...
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> *From:* Bill Prince
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> *Sent:* Sunday, July 25, 2021 9:08 AM
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> *To:* af@af.afmug.com
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> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] list dead?
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> If the people on this list went to FB, I would have to say adios.
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> bp
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> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
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> On 7/25/2021 5:25 AM, Timothy Steele wrote:
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> Everyone seems to have moved on to the WISP talk Facebook group
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> There are still a good number on this list though
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> On Sat, Jul 24, 2021, 12:45 PM Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> I tried that and got arrested for desecration of a corpse
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> On Thu, Jul 22, 2021, 5:27 PM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Necromancy required to resurrect?
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