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Hello Bob - 

BS> OK, let's test the other direction... Since Maurice's post
BS> is the first from a Fido address, he gets to be the guinea
BS> pig. ;-) If everything is working better than perfectly,
BS> this should appear on both the C_Echo, the private C
BS> newsgroup, the SNIPPETS C mailing list, and in Maurice's
BS> private email. If it only shoes up in the C_Echo and the
BS> mailing list, I'll call it a victory, though. Major thanks
BS> to Jon and Janis! 

I had always viewed the C_ECHO as the reward after a bit of a
'test' to see who could wade through all the protocols and
disappearing BBS then get a workable offline reader and _use_
it. Seemed to eliminate those who really didn't care and just
had nothing better to do than state an opinion about something
they knew next to nothing about. I am referring to the 'C'
language here in particular. 

Now that Janis, Jon, and Bob have managed to make access
available to the lowest on the food chain I am teaching my cat
to use the function keys to post in the C_ECHO. She may as well
have equal access along with the others, she isn't at the very
_bottom_ of the food chain (think that's the amoeba?). Do we
have a access point for the amoeba yet? If not Janis, Jon, and
Bob can probably come up with something. 

At present kitty can use: 

F1 - "I don't know the answer to that, I only program in JAVA"
F2 - "I don't know the answer to that, I prefer to use C++"
F3 - "I used to know that, haven't gotten into it in a long time."
F4 - "What's a pointer?"
F5 - "Looks good but is it ANSI/POSIX?"
F6 - "Yup, me too."
F7 - "This is a Linux question but thought I'd ask it here."

BS> On another note, I see that Tom's Yahoo groups gateway
BS> seems to be down again, so it looks like this may be the
BS> official gateway from now on. 

Congratulations Bob, you've come to the inevitable end of a
long journey. Rather than fish for individual 'snippets' just
cast a bigger net and scoop up the entire echo. I applaud your
innovation, you've grown over the years into an impressive
force within cyberspace. 

Enjoy! 

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