This is in reference to the "I am sick of SysOps" comment..I am a SysOp 
 of a local, free BBS called 'Whispers of the Heart BBS' and it is a 
friendship and support BBS...It takes more of my time to keep up and going 
than my 40 hour a week job  and more of the money I make goes to the BBS 
than to myself..All my energy and compassion and love , not to mention money, 
is dedicated to the people on this BBS..It is HARD going to work and 
struggling through an eight hour day after spending hours answering 80 
messages and attaching files and making phone calls and trying to get an 
E-magazine compiled and answering the phone, talking someone out of suicide 
and into knowing I love them and care about them...It is also hard to read it 
when someone says they are tired of the local SysOps around here when they 
call on their computers, a gift in itself, using their phoneline , another 
gift, their energy, another gift, their time, another gift...I operate my 
body sometimes on no sleep and one meal simply because someone needed 
me...Because they were lonely or lost their job and I was trying to help find 
one or needed a scholarship or all was lost...Sometimes it is a call from 
someone and no words are spoken by him...just the sounds of someone crying 
and I whisprer words of comfort and love...and cry too...
In short..we do what we can...all we can...Please dear friend..we share what 
we have..share what you have...common consideration and patience....
Lynnette
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