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-=> Quoting Paul Hayton to Nancy Backus on 17-Dec-2015 06:40 <=-

 NB>> Have you not seen the messages lately in the echo...?  There's been a
 NB>> gap of a day or so every so often, but generally some flow... :)  I
 NB>> don't recall (I'm thinking maybe not) if you had answered my last
 NB>> message before this last exchange, though, so maybe some message(s)
 NB>> didn't make it all the way round the world...

 PH> Yes I'm seeing what I think is reasonable flow but it can be hard to
 PH> tell at times if one is getting everything or not without telnetting to
 PH> another system to crosscheck content on another BBS.

Probably not that bad a practice, actually... :)  As a user that checks
in at various different bbses, I have a somewhat built-in propagation
check... ;)  It's also my belt-and-suspenders way of making sure that I
always have a backup to fall back on wherever and whenever necessary... 

 PH> I'm sorry I don't think I did respond last time - apologies. I think
 PH> it was a case of reading your reply then forgetting to go back and
 PH> reply. 

That's where I find my offline so helpful... I have packets sitting
there, nagging me that they aren't completely read yet... Anything I
intend to go back to to reply to later, I always re-mark unread...  :)

 NB>  PH> I'm feeling robbed of a good summer so far, as it it's been
 NB>  PH> cooler, cloudy and wet for most of the last 5-7 days and the
 NB>  PH> next 5 days look like more of the same :(
 NB>> It's still early, yet, though... still another week to the solstice,
 NB>> and true summer for you and winter for us... I haven't heard
 NB>> officially, but I think we did break the record for a high today...
 NB>> it was at least in the high 60's (circa 20oC) this afternoon... not
 NB>> what one expects less than 2 weeks to Christmas...!!  :)  It was
 NB>> overcast most of the day, though... and we got some substantial rain
 NB>> about 4pm... supposed to be getting more rain overnight, too... 
 NB>> Cooling off for the weekend with the possibility of maybe some snow
 NB>> showers Friday night or Saturday, and then warming up again next
 NB>> week...  Not winter-like at all...

 PH> Well my 10 day summer forecast had only one day wth the word 'fine' in
 PH> it and it feels like for the last 5-7 days we have had a recurring
 PH> cycle of cloud, wind and rain with temps feeling more like autumn than
 PH> spring :( 

That's what our springs are usually like... autumn can be like that,
too...  Both can have their nice days, too, though... And they're my
favorite seasons, despite the vagaries...  :)

 PH> Hopefully by mid-January it will be summer here. I have this feeling
 PH> that what I used to experience as summer like weather in Nov/Dec/Jan
 PH> has shifted to Jen/Feb/March now.

Could be...  :)

ttyl      neb

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