UNAXCESS nostalgia (was Re: Originalism)

Martin Keegan

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May 2, 2001, 5:13:32 AM5/2/01

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jason+...@khendon.org.uk (Jason A Williams / Khendon) writes:

> On 02 May 2001 05:39:14 +0100, Martin Keegan wrote:
> >> (a) You all come and use Manchester UA (telnet to ua.compsoc.man.ac.uk) :-p
> >
> >Oh my word, it's UNAXXESS, isn't it? I thought that hailed from Bradford?
>
> UNaXcess... yes, Manchester stole it from Bradford, then got sick of it and
> Mike Wood (Techno) rewrote it from scratch. Come, contemplate in awe the
> majesty of UA2. Or summat :-)

Was LIMBO a feature of the system in 1990?

Mk

Jason A Williams / Khendon

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May 2, 2001, 5:16:08 AM5/2/01

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I have no idea, I was busy being at primary school :-)

The people on UA will be able to tell you more...

--
"Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough"
-- Richard P. Feynman

Jason A Williams / Khendon <ja...@khendon.org.uk>

Martin Keegan

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May 2, 2001, 5:32:24 AM5/2/01

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jason+...@khendon.org.uk (Jason A Williams / Khendon) writes:

> On 02 May 2001 10:13:32 +0100, Martin Keegan wrote:
> >jason+...@khendon.org.uk (Jason A Williams / Khendon) writes:
> >> UNaXcess... yes, Manchester stole it from Bradford, then got sick of it and
> >> Mike Wood (Techno) rewrote it from scratch. Come, contemplate in awe the
> >> majesty of UA2. Or summat :-)
> >
> >Was LIMBO a feature of the system in 1990?
>
> I have no idea, I was busy being at primary school :-)

I'm pretty sure I had a proto-AOL account when I was at
primary school (called Quantum Link or something in Australia)

> The people on UA will be able to tell you more...

Oh dear.

Mk

Jason A Williams / Khendon

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May 2, 2001, 5:46:29 AM5/2/01

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On 02 May 2001 10:32:24 +0100, Martin Keegan wrote:
>I'm pretty sure I had a proto-AOL account when I was at

>primary school (called Quantum Link or something in Australiaaa

I had a fairly internet-challenged childhood unfortunately - I didn't get
to use the Internet really until I got to University.

>> The people on UA will be able to tell you more...
>
>Oh dear.

Mmm?

Richard Green

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May 2, 2001, 10:10:03 AM5/2/01

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In alt.mud.island Martin Keegan <mk...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>> UNaXcess... yes, Manchester stole it from Bradford, then got sick of it and
>> Mike Wood (Techno) rewrote it from scratch. Come, contemplate in awe the
>> majesty of UA2. Or summat :-)

> Was LIMBO a feature of the system in 1990?

I don't remember a LIMBO. What do you think it was? (That might jog my
memory.)

I remember as an undergraduate being able to type the word "unaxcess" in
an unreasonably short time, which is perhaps a bit sad.

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Richard Green

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May 5, 2001, 11:25:35 AM5/5/01

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In alt.mud.island Richard Green <edf...@ox.compsoc.net> wrote:
> In alt.mud.island Martin Keegan <mk...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>> Was LIMBO a feature of the system in 1990?

> I don't remember a LIMBO. What do you think it was? (That might jog my
> memory.)

You aren't going to answer, isn't it?

Martin Keegan

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May 5, 2001, 2:59:39 PM5/5/01

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Richard Green <edf...@ox.compsoc.net> writes:

Conceptually, it was a place where messages went when being moved between
discussions, isn't it.

Mk

John Gilbertson

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May 5, 2001, 5:19:00 PM5/5/01

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Allegedly, yes, but it's currently broken on UA2, and threads moved into
limbo can only be moed out of there by the witnesses, and not the editors
who will have moved the threads into there.

John

Richard Green

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May 6, 2001, 12:38:45 PM5/6/01

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In alt.mud.island Martin Keegan <mk...@cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Conceptually, it was a place where messages went when being moved between
> discussions, isn't it.

Ah, that does ring a bell. I think the Bradford version used to have it,
yes.