On (16 Nov 96) Jan Murphy wrote to Maureen Goldman...
 JM> The last time this happened, I 'rescued' the echolisting and re-listed
 JM> the echo with Pamela as Moderator.  Then long-time MYSTERY participant
 JM> Beth Friedman (who is also a neighbor and friend of Pamela's)
 JM> volunteered to take over the echo, so I sent her a copy of the
 JM> echolisting and password.
 JM> I expected that Beth would take over the listing for the echolist, but
 JM> that didn't happen.  So when I saw the expiration warning come up, I
 JM> submitted a new listing to keep the echo in the echolist.
 JM> This should satisfy the guys running the backbone.  I am willing to do
 JM> any of the caretaker-chores which are needed for backbone echos, like
 JM> helping sysops track down possible breaks in distribution, and so on.
 Great!  Kudos to you.  Is there a lot of work attached to this
 sort of thing?
 JM> When I get the chance, I will netmail Beth and ask her what she
 JM> intends to do. I know Pamela is currently under deadline with an
 JM> overdue book, and you know what that means.  
 Uh ... I have a book due at the end of November, haven't written
 a word in months.  [Hanging head.]  It means that you go to bed
 vowing to do better the next day, then feel really, really
 guilty and wretched.  I've never minded marked-down baked goods,
 but now I am thinking of exploring one of those combination
 packages at the grocery marked "meat ends".
 JM> In the meantime, the echolisting has been renewed, so we shouldn't
 JM> have a problem with the echo being dropped from the backbone.
 Good-o.
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