Yo! Alexander:
Saturday May 24 1997 12:14, Alexander Bilan wrote to Bill Cheek:
 >>  AB> 10-4.  But chaulk that up to laziness on my part. =)
 >>
 >> Now you're an HONEST man, anyway......!!!   :-)
 AB> Thanks. =)  But quite frankly, with school days long behind me, I work 
n
 AB> what I want to work on,
Ain't a thing wrong with that, I reckon.
 AB> and well, priorities come into play. Complete and full internet
 AB> access is not one of them.
And that one's okay, too, even though I don't understand it all that well.  
But there are a lot of things in this old world that I don't understand.  

 AB> My current access does what I require, I have no extra needs at this
 AB> time,
Only you would know for sure since only you hoof around in your own 
moccasins, but are you not tasking yourself as much as you could?
Let me tell you a little story......some months ago, I ran across a neat 
little Windows 95 tip.....the electronic version of 3M "Sticky Notes" where 
you can post little text quips to your DeskTop so's you don't forget 
something.  I rigged up one computer for that neat little tip.  But, because 
it was somewhat involved, I promptly forgot exactly how to do it.  No big 
deal....I didn't think I'd want it on any of my other machines.  Then I 
promptly forgot which magazine that tip appeared in...........again, no big 
deal.
Until today....when it became ideal to install this tip on one of my client's 
computers...and damned if I could find my notes on the HOW TO DO....and I 
ure
couldn't remember a thing on how to implement the tip.
Sooooooo, I fired up my Internet browser; surfed over to the Alta Vista 
search engine, and did a SEARCH on "sticky notes".  Lo and behold!  In the 
first batch of "finds", there it was....a web site with the procedure 
outlined in plain English.  No big deal other than under most any other 
scenario, I'd have had to let it go at that and kick my own ass for 
forgetting....and losing my notes. As it is, I use the Internet to look up 
stuff to make my Life better ... at least two dozen times a week.  Maybe 
more....
So while I readily acknowledge your freedom to not need the resources of the 
Internet, I still don't understand why not.  I'm not asking to put you on the 
spot, either; just saying that I don't understand how you can not need it.
 AB> and I *know* what the capabilites are when I do find myself
 AB> wanting to improove the situation. When that time comes, I will get
 AB> off my lazy butt and finish the job. =-)
For your sake, I hope that time comes sooner than later.  :-)
 >> There it is!  Freedom at it's finest.  What one man doesn't
 >> want....might be wanted by a dozen others.  One should leave one's
 >> wants at the door when entering a newsgroup; else crank out his
 >> filters.
 AB>  Bingo. A point most people forget, and one that slips my mind from time
 AB> to time as well.  Be your own censor is what it boils down to.
If Fido didn't require an active Moderator on each of its echoes, that 
principle could work here, too.  The trouble is.....people are really lazy, 
and want all their problems solved by someone else.....governments, schools, 
cops....so there's a lot of sniveling and whining over issues easily under 
control of the sniveler and whiner.....if only he'd get off his lazy arse....
.....no pun or irony intended.......
 >> Really?  Mail list material comes in as e-mail.  If you can get
 >> e-mail, you can get on a list.  It would be kind of foolish of a SysOp
 >> to outlaw it.
 AB> He wants to keep volume down. I can't blame him for that at all.
Well, that's silly, though.  Why run an Information System if you're going to 
restrict its volume?
 AB> If all your bbs users decided to join a few mailing lists that would
 AB> balloon volume quite substantially.
Yeah, but when have you EVER seen "all" of any population group do the same 
thing?  You can't even get a dozen guys to agree that the sky is blue....
 AB> Its not an issue with me currently either, so I don't question it. =)
 AB> It may make me sound like a couch potatoe, but computers for me have
 AB> dropped down a notch on the hobby level and my other passions have
 AB> taken a stronger hold, things I'd rather be doing and spending some
 AB> money on.
Well, that can't be argued.  A feller only gets 24-hours a day, and he has to 
sleep, shit, shine, shower, and shave for at least eight of them.  Generally, 
he's got to work his arse off for another 8 hours or more.  By the time he 
bounces the kids on his knees and Mama on his....'er never mind.....there 
just ain't many hours left in the day to barter and dicker with
At least you got some priorities.  :-)
Bill Cheek ~ bcheek@san.rr.com
Windows 95 Juggernaut Team ~ Microsoft MVP
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