Gene Buckle (1:138/999) wrote to Steven Horn at 10:48 on 13 Nov 2006:

 GB> I've been up there before.  1989 was the last time.  I'm not that
 GB> enthusiastic  about being able to knock down misquitoes with a
 GB> baseball bat. :)

Try the winter instead and see the start of the Iditarod. 

 GB> That's a shame.  With the exception of the stupid flame fests,
 GB> FidoNet is a pr etty good thing.  I've been around since 1985 or
 GB> so, in one capacity or another.  I even cobbled together a tiny
 GB> mailer for CP/M in Turbo Pascal back in the day. :)

The experience must have soured people because the web-based BBSes should
be as accessible from Alaska as they are from here.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven.horn{at}northwestel.net)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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