Hi Cindy!

>> > Hi. I saw some messages in here at fidoechomail archive online...
>> > looks interesting. I know George Pope from elsewhere. What is the
>> okay > theme to discuss?
>> I think anything really, but mostly related to how 'Abled' people are

> That is what George told me. It's so we disabled people can have our
> fun with the sorry ignorance of the abled toward disabilities, but in
> Ah  healthy humorous way.

Laugh :)  Boy aren't there times in real life when you'd love to feed some
people a dose of that :) :)

> Good heavens we need humor!!! That's the
> biggest issue with disabilities, more so than the disability itself.
> All that 'helpful devices/ compensations' in the world won't make
> up for what a good sense of humor affords: survival.
> I'm still working on mine. :)

It's true - if you can't laugh at yourself (and this goes for more than just
'abled folks ), you aren't much .  My husband and I have
had times when
things would get us down early on, but we had to keep our sense of humor
through it all.. maybe we're just a little weird though 

>>  It's no secret (I think ) to most people
that I've had MS
>> for about 30 years .. I'm still walking and go out dancing
>> sometimes as well - my doc figures I'm just to stubborn to sit down
>> .. Seriously, I know a lot of people have the types of MS that
>> are much worse than the type I have :(

> I've a cousin with MS. She is doing rather well too. I was surprised
> because I thought it was one of those faster scourges.

It depends on the type, really.. some people get the worst type and they
are gone in a short time.. Some people have a type that is pretty bad, but
just stays pretty bad for a long time.. It takes a little time to determine
what type you have, really..some people have it  like me and have the
"relapsing/remitting" type.. comes and goes.. mostly goes, which
is just fine by me .  It's not to say that there aren't days
when it's a damn pain in the butt :)

>> > A survey of the echos has me see that about 95% of the fido
>> population > is male. Nice to find a fellow woman to talk to out here!
>> :)

>> Know what you mean there :)  I was really happy this week to get a new
>> user on my bbs that was a woman, and from China :)  She's a student in
>> Beijing and she's really neat to talk to.  We've been talking with her
>> in the QUESTION/ANSWER_BOX echo if you'd like to check that one out :)

> You can have me too! What's the telnet addy.

You can telnet to telnet://filegate.net and that should get you here 

> Do you have scrabble?

Argh.. I did have scrabble when I was running a dos based bbs years ago.. I
still have the files here offline, as well.. I'm running Linux now and most
of the door games that I _do_ have, are having problems right now :(  I'll
take a look at them this afternoon and see I I can get them 'back in shape'
.. There are scrabble games for linuxl.. I may be able to get one
of them working as an online game.. that would be great for me too, since I
always LOVED that door :)

> Where are you located?

I'm in Windsor, NY, up in northern NYS.. not as northern as some
 Spring has just hit and we're in heaven here :)

>I do offline messaging though. I"m one of those
> "baddies" who just goes on to play games (G). (Sysops want so bad for
> folks to get into the local echos but you know most of the software
> online mailers are a well... you know. (G).

hahahaha Sure, know what you mean.. you can check out the web interface by
going to this link, if you use your browser much:

http://www.filegate.net:8080/bbbs/

On the right, you'll see a link for new users.. The web interface doesn't
let you play doors yet, but if you want an easy way to access some message
areas, it is ok for that.  But if you'd rather stick to telnet (I would
because there are more features available ), that's fine too.

>> > Come to Coffee_Klatsch ? Some of us there are trying to cpr that
>> echo > too...  Sorry to see so many good echos going away.

>> Know what you mean - it is really sad.  And sure, I'll stop in over
>> there - somedays I don't have a lot of time, but today I'm actually
>> free a bit :) I'll mention it to my new user, as well :) Good to talk
>> to you, Cindy :)

> That's okay I don't either. It comes and goes in splotches. Time.

Yep, same here .. :)

> It used to be a very busy echo. Just dried up as people took up
> different interests or moved ; life changed etc. Trying to bring it
> back...

We lost a lot of users to the Internet as well.. I think the new people
using the Internet haven't even heard of Fidonet either.. that doesn't help
:(

Take care,
Janis

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