PE>> You need to set up a "chat script", which is nothing to do with
PE>> unix.

BL> A "chat script" written in C...?

No, it's part of the configuration for UUPC.

BL>> If you do it this way, it'll die (IMO). Inertia alone will
BL>> leave people where they are, and to continue talking to them,
BL>> I'll have to go where they are. You need a crossover period
BL>> when both technologies run side-by-side, the way it's always
BL>> done.

PE>> If it comes to the crunch, they will die, and you'll only see
PE>> me if you collect comp.lang.c etc. 

BL> You're a lovely fella, Paul, but the idea of talking to you alone
BL> makes we run screaming around the backyard. I suppose I could try
BL> electroconvulsive therapy...

comp.lang.c probably has 200 messages/day.

BL>> It would be better if there was just the one AVT using
BL>> different names on Fido and the Net.

PE>> This is fine, but I have no intention of doing it MYSELF so
PE>> offer no guarantees. 

BL> I fear we are coming to the end of a beautiful friendship...

Of course, there has been two others who have said that they will likely be doing so.

PE>> I told you some time ago I was going to the internet. If you
PE>> want to know where the Sigma guy is, he'll be on the internet,
PE>> and you can either join the internet via an ISP yourself, and
PE>> collect comp.lang.c, which is probably the only place I'll be,
PE>> or you can pick up a couple of local (possibly dead) newsgroups
PE>> if you poll me directly. 

BL> Yeah, well... I'll have to make other arrangements, by the sound of
BL> it.

I thought you said you were happy to join the internet, if I started
providing internet newsgroups instead of fido ones?  That's exactly what
I'm planning on doing, what's the surprise?  (the surprise is, there's only
turkey!)  BFN.  Paul.
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