-=> Quoting David Gonzalez to Scott Adams <=-


 DG> El Martes 05 Agosto 2003 a las 20:56, Scott Adams escribi˘ a David
 DG> Gonzalez: 
 DG>> oK Sorry if i didn't make myself clear i meant *JOIN*
 
 SA >      Well that helps :)

 DG> Cool!.

     :)
 
 SA >      Actually according to my emails which i have here i did reply
 SA >      about 3-4 times.  Matter of fact I have tried several
 SA >      more times since then.  Your still in the nodelist here.
 SA >      Was when applied so long ago.  Folks in my net can atest to
 SA >      the lengths I try to find people but they never contact me :<
 SA >      I frequently post in my sysop echo a list of nodes that hav
 SA >      egone AWOL and with full details of contact including dates
 SA >      and such.  So its public info.  Sadly I tend to have anywhere
 SA >      from 14-24 nodes who just go awol for a few months or for
 SA >      even longer and never say anything or just die and never
 SA >      reply.

 DG> Well then we'll have to check that up, as i've lost HDS hundreds of
 DG> times and  so have gone backups


     Not good :<
 
 SA >      So its not that I haven't or didn't want to reply adn contac
 SA >      tfolks but i have.  I can only try so much :)

 DG> :)
 
 SA >      Just looked at my emailer looks like last tried to send email
 SA >      to ya 1/31/03.  I didn't look in them to see what was talked
 SA >      about but looks liek it was then.  To a skynet{at}... address.

 DG> Well in fact you might be using skynetbbshotmail.com and i don't use
 DG> that  acount anymore so probably the mails are lost in some corner of
 DG> cyberspace.

     Who knows.  

 SA >      I assumed that is your addy since I keep so many emails (hardly
 SA >      never delete anything but actual spam for such cases) since
 SA >      the early '90s :).  Seems according to the bbs notes last
 SA >      offical network post with you on the link report was Aug 17 2002.

 DG> Yup!, i guess though for that date i hadn't even started my cybercafe 
 DG> (27/10/02)

     :)
 
 SA >      Guess after that I gave up.

 DG> Yeah too right.

     I've got about 22 AWOL nodes who have done nothing to show
     they exist.  I send occasional emails but there is only
     so much I'll do at this point.  We see too many boards
     just close up and never tell us.  Very very rude and annoying.
                                                
 
 SA >      Not that I've never lost or anything always active in the echos
 >: )
 SA >      Easy to find me...but folks rarely do.  Right now I got like 3
 SA >      ftp folks who have yet to contact me as to what they are up to
 SA >      since we changed ftp sites.  I tried to contact them but no
 SA >      replies.
 
 SA >      At any rate I carry on.  If you want to get hooked up let
 SA >      me know and I can do it.  Just shoot off a email to
 
 SA >      longshot{at}darktech.org since after tonight (midnight) I'll
 SA >      not read mail for a week or two again :)

 DG> That i guess was the problem. you don't answer ewmails and something
 DG> that  really get under my skin is delayed answers like a guy i sent
 DG> email this  morning and he didn't answer till now 20:15 UTC-5 and t6hat
 DG> really bugs me as  i do much other stuff and when i get nmo reply i
 DG> carry on.

     Well I have a busy life.  Sorry but unless its overally critical
     I don't get to mail (like here) or emails until I can.  I own
     my own programming firm full time doing that amonth other things
     and get to it when i can.  I only get maybe 4-5 hours a week
     that i can actually do stuff I WANT to do.   So if a email is
     delayed by a whopping day oh well.  :)  It bugs me when folks
     demand replies instantly thinking they have all the time.
     Back a decade ago I could afford that but not these days.

     Used to have a guy netmail me on some non important things and
     cause it took a whole 18 hours he got upset.  Sorry charlie
     some folks work..sleep and hae other things.  Geesh.

     But to your emails this weekend I replied within a reasonable
     time as I got your replies which were a bit delayed but
     I'm not panicking over the delay time :)

 SA >      Glad you got me started though I need to post another link
 SA >      report and see who is still AWOL out there.  I'm the only
 SA >      net I know that actually does stuff like that.  Most tend
 SA >      to just keep dead nodes in their nodelist for a decade or
 SA >      more just to fluff up their nodelists :)

 DG> Would like to know what AWOL is?, and wxpect my email and i'll expect
 DG> your  answer if i don't receive it at least withing 8 hours i'll carry
 DG> on. 
 DG> I have a dozen websites to develop and some other Admin stuff to do
 DG> and can't  spend time setting things up without the proper and on-time
 DG> replies necesary  though.

 DG> Sorry if i look like an asshole but it's been a long and hard day and
 DG> in fact  that's the way things are i guess :-/

 DG> Saludos desde Colombia!.
 
     AWOL absent without leave.  Nodes who may be gone for 6 plus
     months without a single post to show they are active or who
     are dead and don't reply to contact attempts.

     Within 8 hours?  Your serious?  Wow.  Then I guess you might
     as well carry on.  If I were to get your emails late at 11pm
     as I did once and go to bed then get home to work the next
     day that's well over 18 hours.  Boy.  Guess that's too long
     for ya.  I'll let ya know about this in email and let you decide.

                        

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