> Barbara McNay wrote to James Bradley, "'Nother One" on
 > 07-13-05 16:13

 >>>  BM> Let's hope you've made contact. :)

 >>> I've done all I can, unless he initiates the call. He
 >>> has my number,
 >>> and the e-mail address to him you gave me didn't work.

 >>  BM> Strange.  As I said before, he doesn't have your message or your
 >>  BM> number.  If  you like, you could send that to me e-mail
and I'll send
 >>  BM> it  on to him.  Right now, he has to replace his recorders, so
 >>  BM> unless he has replaced them by now, there's no point in
 >>  BM> calling him again just yet because both of his recorders
 >>  BM> are defective.

 >> The e-mail to him, was returned "No user by that
 >> name." It is wallybr{at}* right?

 >  BM> Yes, I checked in my sent folder, and the address there is correct.

 > I'll double check here, or just send him another post
 > to see if the
 > same happens.

Good idea.  The other day, I sent an email to my son, one of several in an
ongoing conversation, and it bounced.  I sent another one, same address,
asking about it, and he said he was in the process of changing his domain
(?) and my email must have arrived just at changeover.

 >>> The BBS # is 242 3221
 >>> NOSPAM.gbbsg{at}shaw.ca (Kevin Klement)

 >>> Contacts him to the sysop.

 >>  BM> I can pass this information along to him.

 >> What had me scratching my head, was he was using an
 >> OLMR and communication program before, but maybe with
 >> a new computer... I have no problems running a couple
 >> of shareware programs over to him, or if his assistant
 >> is good with software, maybe she can pull up some
 >> slack. 

 >> Anyway, I did leave him my number when we spoke. He's

 >  BM> OK, you did get to speak with him, then.

 > Yup, but he seemed a little trepidacious. Like I say,
 > perhaps he had
 > his fill of newsgroups, and is now naturally cautious.
 > I could imagine
 > a blind person allowing people into their homes, can
 > often find stuff
 > missing. (sic.)

Yes, well I think we all are a little more security conscious than we used to be.

 >> a pretty interesting fella, so I hope he gets back
 >> into it. Maybe he's too jaded from newsgroup
 >> nastiness, and playing it cautious. 

Dunno.  He's got an active sense of humor, no doubt about that.  I don't
know whether he is or ever was in newsgroups.

 >  BM> Who knows?  A lot of echoes just faded out around that
 >  BM> time, and everyone thought they were passe.

 > Well, you see all the time, an echo (Such as this one)
 > is populated by
 > years old posts, until some wisecracker comes along
 > (Someone like
 > me. ;-) and stirs up the pot. I still find fido, a
 > more relaxed,
 > homogeneous place to be.



 >> I'll never forget when a fido guy drove across town
 >> just to drop off video drivers way back. I hadn't seen
 >> that behaviour since I left my hometown of 800 people.

 >  BM> There are still people like that around in Fido, but fewer.

 > I like to think of the density. All the screwballs
 > (OK, most of the
 >  screwballs. ;-) left long ago. I know for a fact, I
 > could ask a
 >  fido person in Vancouver to spoon-feed soup to my
 > sister if she needed
 >  it. Under their own volition, they'd likely hold a
 > vigil until she
 >  was able to feed herself!

 > Shoot, when I didn't know DOS - how much help I found
 > on local
 > echoes... When I didn't know sound cards, a fella from
 > Singapore knew
 > what I needed to do. Today, I'm learning Linux, and
 > there's an
 > abundance of wise guys on that topic that are
 > thoroughly able to
 > confuse me. 

 > All we can hope, is to be able to help others, as much
 > as we have been
 > helped. I think *that* spirit is still alive today.
 > Just look at all
 > the posts I forwarded to this echo on Wally's behalf.
 > I doubt our MC
 > wouldn't drop what he is doing to help a user out. He
 > offered me a
 > cast-off computer, when mine were *all* acting
 > peculiarly. Our NEC
 > would likely do the same, but for some health issues
 > he is dealing
 > with. So, I'm just trying to do what I can to pull up
 > the slack.

 > I *doubt* that spirit will fad as long as there are
 > two people
 > participating in fido. I'm sure there will also be
 > citizens suspicious
 > of that degree of kindness, as it is a foreign notion
 > in this day and
 > age, that one person will offer assistance to another.
 > 

I agree, in general, though I would say that lots of people have been
thoroughly burned by "assistance."

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