-=> Quoting Kurt Weiske to BOB BREED on 12 Oct 11  12:25:00 <=-

 BB> Most of the old timers here recall the old fidonet where messages had
 BB> about a 3 day lag, on good weeks. :)

 KW> I'm one of those! My first iteration of realitycheckBBS was circa
 KW> 1992, and  ran mail during ZMH only. With the delay in responses, there
 KW> was a lot of  "Wait, what was I talking about again?"    :)

So we learned to quote enough to keep the context, hopefully.  :)  Still
a useful thing to do... especially for people like me that keep getting
behind (thus emulating that old-time delay, though not intentionally)... 

ttyl         neb

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