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Re: English Or Irish? OT Joke.....

To: Michael Thomas <mathomas@engmail.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: English Or Irish? OT Joke.....
From: Jim <jdeatsc1@rochester.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 23:03:50 -0400
Sounds like a plan to me Mike.
We certainly need all the info sharing we can get.  At least I know I do.

Jim


Michael Thomas wrote:

> I guess I missed this discussion -- working on finishing my thesis for
> school, broke my "mouse" finger at work, left the mail for a few days, and
> all of a sudden I have 400+ messages to go through.
>
> I have a question:
> How many people are using old text-based mailing as their only means of
> internet access?
>
> What I am getting at:
> By no means am I in any way disrespecting the list -- I am extremely happy
> with the assistance I have received from it; it is an excellent source for
> info, encouragement and support, but the messages are overwhelming!
>
> I am curious if there would be interest in someone (i.e. not me!) setting up
> a web-based discussion forum.  You take your browser to a site, the
> discussion is broken up into different topics, so if you had technical
> questions, you would be in a different area than the jokes of the day, etc.
> You can avoid stuff that is non-relevant to your purpose, and have a general
> discussion area for relaying stories of exploits across the country, blown
> engines, etc...
>
> Not knowing the computer experience of most of the listers, perhaps many
> haven't seen this type of site before, so if you would like, check out
> http://www.rageunderground.com/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi which is a site I
> frequent for help concerning my video card.
>
> Again, I think this resource is great, and I don't want to put anyone out of
> the "mailing list" business, but just an idea.  My newtork connection right
> now is too slow to support this kind of thing, but maybe some day when I get
> cable modem service...
>
> Thanks for your time!
>
> Mike Thomas

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