Meg asks:
 
 > WHERE IS EVERYBODY????
 >
 > Megius Messagelessus
 
I'm still here; just haven't had time to write much.
 
I can tell you, though, that something is rotten in Fidonet.  I am 
persistently getting replies to messages before the originals.  Like Jean 
said, the replies come in but the originals don't -- except that maybe Jean 
didn't wait long enough.  I got stuff from Vicki *today*
-- orignials for which I'd seen the replies maybe half a week ago 
or more.
 
This stinks.  It's bad enough when the replies come first and the originals 
are in the end of the same day's mail or in the next day's mail, so you end 
up reading everything twice or three times to get a sense of a conversation 
in the proper order.  But when they come in days or weeks apart, it's nearly 
impossible to have any kind of conversation.
 
I'll leave it to Bob to say what we can do about it, if anything. 
 Quoting whole messages when we reply (so that folks who haven't gotten 
the original yet can see it) is cumbersome, and besides it only works for the 
first two messages in a thread.  After that, we're going to run up against 
the Fido message limits.
 
Anyhow, I'm frustrated as you-know-what, and it's one of the reasons you 
haven't heard much from me lately.
 
Hope you are all enjoying the rest of the 4th of July weekend.
 
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