ml>RN> At my age, I can't plan THAT far ahead.  (-:  Just who is going 
ml>RN> to read your areas with a 0 parameter if you can't?
ml>RN>
 RN>  
ml> they are archived for special purposes... in at least six cases, they are
ml> echos for the beta teams that i am/was a member of... i keep those
ml> messages for historical reasons and they have also helped me to help
ml> others with certain problems that have come up with the release versions
ml> of those packages...
 RN>  
 RN> Historical or hysterical?  I'll bet they're closely related.  

nope... historical... one is the FD_BETA area and it has all the messages
ever posted in it since i joined the team... all except a thousand or two
that got purged by accident way way back... the same for the RA_BETA and
FE_BETA areas...

ml>RN> See example above between the lines.  It must be remembered that 
ml>RN> a genius designed D'Bridge and we were lucky enough to have 
ml>RN> another genius take it over and keep it current.
 RN>  
ml> :)
 RN>  
 RN> Does that mean you agree?  (-:

not sure... i was just smiling ;)

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