Ardith Hinton to Anton Shepelev:

AH>>> This apparently simple question has brought all sorts
AH>>> of interesting people out of the woodwork.

AS>> You mean termites, what?!

AH> Speaking figuratively, I was including various people
AH> who don't often say much here but are well worth
AH> listening to....  :-)

Yes, I understood you, and made a feeble attempt at a lowly
joke prompted and insufficiently justified by an implicit
and unnoticed metaphor of FidoNet as an old, desolate, and
decaying wooden building, whose last surviving inhabitants
have retreated behind &c, &c.

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