On Friday, September 11, 1998 at 8:00:00 AM UTC+1, €JonnyBoy€ wrote:
Love the JMU reference, and sorry to 'but-in', but you guys sound like you might know someone who can help us. We're looking into developing a
lottery business, and need to hear from someone who can lend a bit of expertise, in buying tickets and legal matters etc.
Can you help?
please drop us a line at lot...@wab.co.uk if so. And a downward sneer to liverpool uni
Many thanks
Jon
In article <35f38429...@news.rapid.co.uk>, myn...@seebelow.com wrote:
Tom Rockwell <sp...@netacc.net> wrote:
Richard Lloyd wrote:
Just thought you might like to know that Liverpool University here in the
UK has decided to ban the entire rec.gambling.* heirarchy from its Usenet
service.
Unless they don't give you web access either you should still be able to read
and post here via Deja-News or AltaVista. If you want to keep reading this >newsgroup (gotta keep up with that spam, you know) check them out.
FeedMe http://www.feedme.org used to give a good listing of RGL if you
did a search for rec.gambling.lottery
Looks like you will have to change Universities, Richard I can't
imagine the Liverpool John Moore's University ever banning
anything connected to gambling ;-) although on second thought's
Lottery???? well maybe.
For those of you living outside Merseyside the LJMU (Liverpool's
other university) was named after the founder of the Littlewood's
Football Pool's Empire, because of all the good works he had done
during his lifetime and his loyalty to Liverpool. Maybe that's why
LU want to ban it?
The Football Pools industry has suffered badly since the Lottery
started. (Littlewood's also put a bid in to run the Lottery).
Rapidnet on Queens Drive can supply a fairly good news/internet
service for 10-12 pounds a month.
Sean B
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What a blast from the past this is. I remember the "good ole days" when the newsfeed came into the University of Liverpool through Computer Science rather than the Computer Lab (central university computing 'service') and we forwarded it on to the 'Lab.
I'm pretty sure it came over the Janet-IP service but I also have a vague recollection that <X25 DTE>.FTP.NEWS figured somewhere briefly.
Random fragments of memories:
We discovered that current/former students/researchers were doing a roaring trade passing their surplus userIDs on the mainframe to their friends, mainly, as we saw it, to conduct a war of words on newsgroups like 'soc.culture.lebanon'. This was of
course back in the day when your access to computing facilities didn't evaporate 10 seconds after you completed your courses.
We had local hierarchies, like lucs.* which wouldn't propagate outside of the department and liv.* which wouldn't propagate outside of the university. We had a run-in with the puce-faced deputy director of the 'Lab who saw some criticism of them in liv.
general and nearly blew a gasket in his rant, neither understanding nor subsequently caring that it was very much a local group.
I wrote a multi-threaded NNTP server for ANUnews under VMS to serve news clients in the department. Process creation and maintenance was so resource-hungry in those days.
Keith
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