Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 10128
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2003/9/10-11 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA/Motd] UID:10128 Activity:high
9/9     Oh crusty old alumni: Tell us younguns if there was ever a time when
        the motd wasn't just trolling or counter-trolling.
        \_ link:csua.org/u/48z -- a soda motd from over ten years ago.
           \_ So then the answer is, no, its always been trolling.  Thanks
              for clearing that up!
              Unless of course, the post at the top was serious.
            \_ Damn I AM old. I can figure out about five of the eight
               nicknames on the "casino-night" reference. Guess which one
               is psb....
            \_ Probably uninteresting piece of CSUA trivia. /etc/motd.public
               was started Spring 1993 (when I was Secretary). I gave the
               motd the lovely "=+=+=+=+=" line soon after (I think it was
               all "-----" before that). I got my idea from a Family
               Computing magazine article on word processing I read in the
               1980s. Someone changed the "+" to "-" a year and a half
               after that. --jsjacob
        \_ "Director's Cut of the Abyss showing at the UC tomorrow night."
           Sniff, brings a tear of nostalgia to my eye.
        \_ I think it's wrong to write off the motd as just trolling.
           when someone i disagree with posts a link or suggests that
           i go read something, i actually read it, and I'm sure i'm
           not the only one.  I've learned alot from this, and have
           changed the way I look at some issues because of it.  i
           read alot more history, political science and economics because
           of the motd, and I'm sure i'm not the only one.  the net
           is full of forums like http://www.freerepublic.com or http://www.indymedia.org
           where people all agree and just sit around shouting about
           how much they agree.  the motd is very rare in that you really
           see *alot* of different points of view here.  if there were more
           forums like the motd we would live in a better world.
           \_ too bad the motd didn't teach you that a lot is two words.
        \_ I think it's gotten a lot more political but I don't think
           I know anyone smart enough to be truly funny and political
           constantly.  The motd used to be a lot more mundane,
           rants about Evans, potsticker jokes, whatever transvestite
           blojo was hanging out with, and how many ways
           you can say 'go stick your head in a big' in different
           computer languages.
        \_ Sometimes it's just boring.  Enjoy the trolls.
        \_ It isn't really trolling when all of us have always been doing it.
           It's just a big game which is why we get annoyed when some people
           censor things.  Why delete the entire game?  It's worse than
           taking your ball and going home.
        \_ I have an RCS archive of the motd going back SEVERAL YEARS.  You
           are welcome to check for yourself.   -ERic
           ps. its in /csua/tmp/mehlhaff/motd_archive and ~mehlhaff/tmp/
        \_ I think it's because the motd has gotten on average older.
           Many are 30+ or pushing 30, got different views, turning old,
           fat, Republican. So of course the topics and cynicism are going
           to increase.
           \- jesus:
              psb  csua  2852 Mar 30  1993 /home/sequent/psb/bin/MakeTeXPK*
              \_ So what?  Some of us (including psb) have accounts that go
                 back to machines that don't exist anymore and haven't for
                 years.  It's just time.  You'll be old one day, too.
                 \_ um, isn't that psb you are replying to?
                 \_ if we're going to play geezer games, how many ocf machines
                    can you name off the top of your head?
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