Hi Bob

 On 12 May 97  14:53:04 Bob Lawrence typed to Niels Petersen ....

and typed a slightly different version on the 13th

You must be losing it...... :-)


 >> I suppose I could try electroconvulsive therapy...

 >  NP> Don't bother. It doesn't achieve the intended results and only
 >  NP> stuffs up the pacemaker.

 >   It worked on the Lebanese lady next door. She was running about with
 > a paper bag over her head to stop hyperventilating, bursting into
 > tears over nothing. After they zapped her she stopped running about.
 > Of course, her attention span is measured in milliseconds, and she
 > bursts into tears whenever she can't find her pussy,

Shit!  She _must_ have been bad if she can't find that.

 but it's a huge improvement, overall.

 :-)


Internet

 >  NP> I agree. Exactly why I have avoided it so far.

 >   I expect that if I wait long enough, Telstra will jump on this ISP
 > shit and allow you to dial direct, just like telephones...

 THAT is what they are aiming at I think. Cut out all the other ISP's


 >> Yeah, well... I'll have to make other arrangements, by the sound
 >> of it.
 >  NP> Swap over to John and join the rest of the old AVT mob in
 >  NP> Locsysop & LocUser.

 >   Unfortunately, that loses Paul.

 Nope we are still seeing all his mail.  When he gets UUCP working,
 Jeff will be gating him into here anyway, so what's the problem?


 >  NP> My next effort will be to get Rod Gasson hooked in, and we will
 >  NP> be back to the old original crowd, but minus the fuckwits who
 >  NP> invaded AVT. IOW ... WE control who gets OUR echo !!!!!

 >   Yair... it got a bit silly near the end.

 Silly ain't the word for it. Rucking Fidiculous is more like it.


 >  NP> When Paul gets it all sorted out, we should be able to hook his
 >  NP> newsgroups in if we want. I figure it should work. Wadayareckon
 >  NP> ?????
 >  NP> LATER. Jeff's got the right idea. He's offering to gate stuff
 >  NP> to Paul thus creating another link that is still under OUR
 >  NP> control.

 >   Yes... once Jeff gates the Internet Locuser, we'll all be back
 > together if we want to be. I assume that we'll all switch the the
 > Inetrnet feed eventually, in a year or so if the Internet's not dead
 > by then, but in the meantime we need a dual feed.

 If you hook to John now, you will still have the rest of us while Paul
 is setting up his UUCP.  With the teething problems he is bound to have
 you won't be losing the rest of us every time Pauls system hiccups.

 _When_ he gets the bugs ironed out, (and your guess is a godd as mine
 on when that will be ;-) )then any of us can choose to get
 the same messages from either John or Paul depending on the software we
 want to run.

I may change over to UUCP, I may not. Depends on how much hassle is
involved.
Changing to John was easy. Just altered two entries in the config file
and one global change in the tosser.

Cheers
Niels

* OLR 5.1 *  Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are,
             not as they ought to be. Ambrose Bierce

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