[TAG] State of the antispam regime (was: Closed account question)

Breen Mullins bpm at idiom.com
Tue Apr 18 19:18:01 MSD 2006


On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 06:27:14PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> 
> It thus coincides with the eastern (non-coastside) half of San Mateo County,
> and is bounded by the somewhat more urban "Silicon Valley" cities to the
> south and southeast.  The municipalities of the Peninsula were
> historically (if you consider 1870s - present to be "history")
> considered bedroom communities for the city of San Francisco, at first
> via an electric interurban railroad running between San Francisco and
> San Jose that followed the route of the Imperial Spanish "King's Highway" 
> ("El Camino Real") up the flatlands of the Peninsula.  Later, of course, 
> a "Bayshore Highway" was built following that same route but even closer
> to the water (that now being the US-101 freeway), and later a second one
> paralleling it to the west, in the foothills of the ~900m-tall Santa
> Cruz Mountains (that corridor now serving as the Interstate route 280
> freeway).

And since we're talking about earthquakes here this week, I'll observe
that a lot of US-101 is built on land reclaimed from San Francisco Bay, 
and is very likely to return there when the next big quake hits the 
San Andreas Fault.

Breen
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Breen Mullins
Menlo Park, California





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