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by neilv
854 days ago
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Not the same thing, but: some pre-Web Usenet programs would have warnings before "expensive" operations: > Version 4.3 patch 30 of rn’s Pnews.SH (September 5, 1986, published to support the new top-level groups) introduced the “thousands of machines” message: > > This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world. You message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing. -- https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/14763/wha... |
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