-=> Quoting Daryl Stout to Nancy Backus on 07-02-15  11:21 <=-

 NB>We had that sort of thing here in Rochester, too... back in the old
 NB>days... :)  Reinforced the sense of community...  :)  And at least one
 NB>bbs grew out of a local computer interest group...

 DS> I remember at one of the gatherings, a female Sysop (who ran an
 DS> adult based BBS (i.e. "R" content) would be "carding" potential users.

I never saw that here... :)
 
 NB>And the COOKING echo picnics are a different form of the same idea...
 NB>getting together in person, putting faces to names, and real-time
 NB>interaction...  ;)

 DS> The funny part is that you make a mental image of the person you
 DS> type with...or as in the case of ham radio, talk with. But, when you
 DS> finally meet them in person, they don't look at all like you pictured
 DS> them!! 

That partially happened at the first Cooking echo picnic I went to...
but there were a couple people there that looked a lot like what I'd
thought they might.  Years ago, back when the Genealogy echo was a
thriving echo, I went to a Genealogy conference in Baltimore, hoping to
meet some of my friends from the echo.... I saw one lady facing away
from me, and said to myself, I bet that's Elsie... and sure enough, so
it was... and she was almost exactly how I'd pictured her... a very
sweet grandmotherly sort...  :)

ttyl       neb

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