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Hello Jerry - 

>> Not actually accessing this echo via a FIDO BBS seems to
>> impose no need to address your replies to the person you are
>> replying to. 

JC> More accurately, rather than eliminating the need, it
JC> (mostly) eliminates the _possibility_. 

I suspected as much. I've not lurked using elists and have no
personal experience with using an elist for a FIDO echo. 

>> It would be helpful if you could use a FIDO BBS to access
>> the echo and use real names. 

JC> When I could do so I did -- for years I was 1:128/60.2, and
JC> for a while after that I was 1:128/77.3. Eventually,
JC> however, direct Fido connections became impractical for me. 

FIDO BBS are telnet'able now. ;-) 

>> Where I come from addressing a person as "You" would be
>> considered rude behaviour. 

JC> Somehow a Biblical quote about the log in thine own eye
JC> springs to mind here. 

Many things spring to mind here when other FIDO users are
trying to be argumentative for no good reason but I usually
fight the urge to type them into a reply. 

--8<--cut 

JC> originally =+, =-, and so on because it made the parser a
JC> bit easier to write). Later, Jerry. 

And we come full circle to my mentioning that getopt() seems to
be overkill for a parser which seems of no interest to the
elist lurkers of the new MSVC slow and bloated school of
programming. :-) 

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