Re: tlug: Re: TLUG Server (Finance)

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Totoro wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > well, maybe someday someone will figure out how to transfer beer by ftp -
> > then the problems will sort of be one and the same, won't they?
> 
> It's not ftp in that case, it's btp (beer transfer protocol). It works
> quite well in trucks, but getting it to run on phone lines could be
> quite a challenge. ;-)

Would it be tcp or udp?  I'd think beer would have to probably be sent via
udp, since it comes in those nice little datagrams- er, BOTTLES anyway.
I wonder if your TA/modem would start dropping packets once it got drunk,
though?

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