Hello Clyde,      ...In a msg of , clyde wrote:

 SH>> Maybe gating MooseChat to alt.moose is something worth doing for the
 SH>> sheer fun of it?  On the other hoof, things have changed in the world
 SH>> since January.

 c> Difficult to say; always in stillness is the moose.

Ah, yesss!  Spoken like a true Eastern Moose!

           ...What can I say?  Even though we live in what many would
call Central Canada, or perhaps by worse names by those living out
west, when I consider my personal beliefs I have to think of myself as
an Eastern Moose.

 c> It's good to see you back Steve, as I was being to wonder if I was
 c> stamping my hoof in isolated frustration here. I'd sent you a couple of
 c> moosages, but not seen anything back.

I think I eventually replied to any messages I saw.  Here are the most
recent messages I've seen.  Aside from my "Rules Posting" not showing
up in the message base at 249/303, they're pretty much what I see when
I check message traffic at your uplink 249/303.

Paul Henry          All Meese (and othe gronk, tap, tap      11 Sep 03
Stephen Hart        Paul Henry          gronk, tap, tap      12 Sep 03
Paul Henry          Stephen Hart        gronk, tap, tap      12 Sep 03
The Three Moosekete Paul Henry          gronk, tap, tap      15 Sep 03
Paul Henry          The Three Moosekete gronk, tap, tap      20 Sep 03
Swamp Moose         Paul Henry          gronk, tap, tap      20 Sep 03
Stephen Moose-Hart  Paul Henry          gronk, tap, tap      21 Sep 03
Paul Henry          Swamp Moose         gronk, tap, tap      21 Sep 03
Jack Yates          Paul Henry          gronk, tap, tap      23 Sep 03
DAVID SHACKELFORD   4WCMAIL              DROP                06 Oct 03
Paul Henry          DAVID SHACKELFORD    DROP                06 Oct 03
Stephen Hart        All Meese (and Othe Rules Posting        09 Nov 03
Stephen Hart        All                 alt.moose newsgroup  09 Nov 03
Stephen Hart        All                 lost messages        08 Nov 03
clyde               Stephen Hart        alt.moose newsgroup  10 Nov 03
Strawberry Moose    Paul Henry          gronk, tap, tap      16 Nov 03

If some messages are missing, perhaps you could post them again?
While there was a temporary delay, all messages showing at 249/303 or
at telnet://bbs.docsplace.org eventually made it to 249/116 and then
to my own node.

 c> Perhaps as meese return to their igloos and fire up their dusty broadband
 c> connections after a long summer, they will feel an amused tingling, and
 c> deign to write something mildly guffawish.

We may have to "work" at that, a little.  I've personally mourned the
lack of meese writing "silly" messages along the lines of some of the
stuff we wrote back in the Hell249 days.  Even my political satire had
a strong dose of silliness.  For the last few years, to get a message
exchange going each of us has had to try and merge our personal humor
preferences with the preferences of other meese.  I guess this is
partly a result of many meese having migrated to UseNet newsgroups or
to vegetating while clicking their way through the World Wide Wait...

Whoops!  I should have said something along the lines of "browsing
their way through the virtual swamp called the WWW".

         ...Anyroad, perhaps your enthusiasm will inspire us?  Still,
you'll have to realize that many of us may be feeling a little worn
out.  So, it may take a while for us to wake up MooseChat a little.

FWIW, we're still in slightly better shape that the Wunderment echo I
used to enjoy occasionally "lurking in".  I think they lost the last
of their more prolific writers quite a while back and...

 c> the south. While our American meese may have tough hides, "we must be
 c> cautious". As amusing as an NSA crackdown on Fi-doe Net would be, this
 c> would not be good for numbers. Many meese would flee the swamp never to
 c> return.

I hadn't even thought about any of the Three Letter Acronym agencies.
I guess the question is whether alt.moose is much less obscure than
this FidoNet echo?  While alt.moose gets almost no traffic, it would
certainly be easier for "them" to monitor it than MooseChat.  Still,
when I think about some of alt.binary.picture hierarchy newsgroups,
I wonder if NSA monitoring is as prolific as we're told.    ...Or,
perhaps they never concern themselves with more mundane lawbreakers
and just concentrate on National Insecurity concerns?

 c> Does the gate software allow for the addition of a standard tagline, such
 c> as: "These people are funny, and are thus a figment of your imagination.
 c> Any resemblance between the user "George II Bush" and
Emperor George II
 c> Bush" is purely coincidental. Sit Ubu sit, good moose." ??

Far as I can tell, there is no such option.  Besides, unbelievable as
it seems, the sort of idiot who "should" read that type of advisory is
also exactly the sort of idiot who would manage to not notice such an
advisory.


Yours in the Way of the Moose,


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