>>> Mark Bloss on Alive? 
 MB> You're right - I don't remember any welcoming slap on my butt.  In
 MB> fact, the only welcoming slap I remember on my butt - I was 24 years
 MB> old by then - and it was a while before that when I was born.  But I
 MB> do sometimes get the two of them mixed up.  So, what are we trying to
 MB> decide here - that Fidonet just came into being one day, so everybody
 MB> decided that it might be a good way to send messages back and forth? 
 MB> Sounds about right to me...  ;)
You have confused the First Message with the sound of one hand clapping. -)
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