Re: Wasilla?
  By: Steven Horn to Gene Buckle on Fri Nov 10 2006 12:54 am

 > Gene Buckle (1:138/999) wrote to JIM WELLER at 07:57 on 09 Nov 2006:
 > 
 >  GB> Nope.  My dad lives up there.  I'm one of the soggy residents of
 >  GB> Washington.
 > 
 > If your father lives in Alaska, go up and visit the place.  If you drive the
 > Alcan, the scenery will stun you and even if you don't, Anchorage is a
 > beautiful city.
 >
I've been up there before.  1989 was the last time.  I'm not that enthusiastic
 about being able to knock down misquitoes with a baseball bat. :)



 > collapsed in Alaska in 1998 and although many of the participants of that da
 > can still be reached through the Internet, they no longer have any interest 
 > Fido.
 >
That's a shame.  With the exception of the stupid flame fests, FidoNet is a pr
etty good thing.  I've been around since 1985 or so, in one capacity or
another.  I even cobbled together a tiny mailer for CP/M in Turbo Pascal back
in the day. :)

g.

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