-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 30 Oct 09  00:43:24 <=-

 > although it isn't one I normally read.

 MK> Same here except that lately I saw an opportunity to get some
 MK> information but failed miserably achieving that particular goal. 

Some people just aren't very forthcoming, I guess...

 > just in case you didn't figure out that it'd gone astray

 MK> I didn't notice.  Someone there informed me that it looked out of
 MK> place there and fired off a helpful message with my name on it. 

Yeah, I saw Joe's message to you in the process of retrieving yours.  :)

 MK> Retrieving it and then reposting it here was a bit of a trick but I
 MK> did manage to pull it off.  Almost didn't though as I find web
 MK> interfaces to be extremely annoying, even the text based ones which is

I haven't tried web interfaces yet... I'm even less inclined to do so
now...  Telnet works fine, and I'm not going to other than text-based
any time soon, either.   :)

 MK> all I am using for this particular idea.  I think I was wanting an
 MK> excuse to totally quit trying and that one almost became the camel
 MK> back breaker. 

In which case, I'd hope that you would at least have seen my message to
you here in DADS, had I been the one to bring things back... ;)

 MK> That should have worked but it would have been nice if there were an
 MK> internal command on the BBS that allowed the poster - me in this case
 MK> - to move a message to the correct echo. 

I think that some bbs softwares do allow that, but most I've been on
don't, and even don't allow for revision of an already posted message. 
More reasons, as far as I'm concerned, to stay with offline messaging. 
Editing and moving messages, along with answering into another area are
easy to do in the BW reader...  :)

 > Say something that sounds impressive, even if it is clearly
 > made up gobble-de-gook.

 MK> I'd conclude it is part of standard operating procedures.

Probably.
 
 > Can you tell the low opinion I have of ad writers in general...?

 MK> Hm.  Possible dimension of compatibilty?  ;-)
 
Again, it would seem so...  ;)

 MK> -------------------------------- ye ol' cut and paste stops

 MK> Sorry if the above isn't formatted for your screen but it lines up
 MK> perfectly here.  All my terminals work that way and are in sync with
 MK> each other display-wise which is what I want.  Makes everything I do
 MK> on a day-to-day basis much simpler and vastly more powerful than
 MK> simular GUI thingies that I absolutely refuse to do. 

It looked fine in the BW reader, although the editor messed things up a
little when it came quoted into the reply, so I left that bit out.  GUIs
and pointing devices are not things I do either unless absolutely forced
into.  :)  Lots of hits, I see...    So if you wanted to track them
down for a current event, you probably could do so.  :)

ttyl      neb

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