From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Mon, 2 Sep 2024, Stefan Ram wrote:   
      
   > Johanne Fairchild  wrote or quoted:   
   >> You offer a shell account to a ``tweenager'' and they decline---thanks,   
   >> but no, thanks.  ``I have my own system.''  They see no fun in sharing   
   >> in a UNIX system.   
   >   
   >  On some shell accounts here, "social commands" (like "finger",   
   >  "who", etc.) have been disabled. It might have something to   
   >  do with the "Datenschutz" ("privacy") laws.   
   >   
   >  The admins also do not seem to use "motd" anymore, instead   
   >  system information seems to be published on some web page.   
   >   
   >  I had one free shell account about 20 years on a system where   
   >  you could log in and play nethack. I think the highscore list   
   >  was shared.   
   >   
      
   Nethack... now there's a game I haven't heard about in ages! I know for a   
   time, it was quite popular among my circle of acquaintances but it must   
   have been around the 90s somewhere.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)