Hey Nancy!

Dec 10 18:37 05, Nancy Backus wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 NB> Maybe...  But that sounds a lot like the naysayers that thought it 
 NB> would
 NB> all fold with Y2K... and here we are, 5 years, almost 6, later...  :)

Too true.  However I stand by my prediction until proven wrong.  I'll admit
it then that I was wrong but then you'll have to be here in order to hear
it and nothing will have changed.  Right?

 NB> As long as us diehards don't give up, and we gain even a few newbies,
 NB> things will keep going along, maybe even get more active.

That is the general idea except that I believe thing require tweaking as
they go along.  In a network situation that requires cooperation.

 NB> I doubt 
 NB> we'll
 NB> ever see the likes of the heyday of BBS/Fido echoes, but a viable 
 NB> medium
 NB> I have little doubt of.

I hope you are right.  We'll see.  In the meantime I like the idea of
exploration ... or at least speculation.

 NB> There's even a few of those who gave up that
 NB> keep coming back to check things out, and see (often to their 
 NB> surprise)
 NB> that things are* still going... :)

I've been one of those except I had to look REALLY, REALLY hard the last
time I was hunting.

Life is good,
Maurice

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