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revious, or elp?M473;1 Genie SFRT4 Bulletin Board Hello SF-CENTAUR [ ? ] Last On: Wed Dec 29, 1999 Category 1 SFRT4 Administration - All About SFRT4 1 ?BRO NOR Category 1 SFRT4 Administration - All About SFRT4 ************ Topic 1 Wed Dec 29, 1999 G.FEELEY1 [Elasas] at 16:05 EST Sub: "The Last Life Raft?" An answer to KarenA's question. 194 new messages. ************ ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 10 Wed Dec 29, 1999 SF-VOL [Vol Ranger] at 20:38 EST You know how hard it is to blow up a life raft one breath at a time? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 11 Wed Dec 29, 1999 N.DOYLE1 [Noreen] at 21:01 EST This is a papyrus raft. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 12 Wed Dec 29, 1999 K.ALLEN22 [KarenA] at 22:24 EST And we have lots of bread, but no anchor. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 13 Wed Dec 29, 1999 A.GORMLEY1 [Adrienne] at 22:30 EST Does papyrus float? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 14 Wed Dec 29, 1999 N.DOYLE1 [Noreen] at 22:52 EST Like a boat of a million years. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 15 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.LEDDY [HUGH] at 07:08 EST As I always say, Archie, there's life in the old dame yet. Toujours gai, kiddo, toujours gai! Mehitabel the Cat/ Don Marquis ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 16 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.ALLEN22 [KarenA] at 08:00 EST The aquarium screen-saver on my other computer is providing some watery sound effects. A virtual ocean. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 17 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 11:45 EST hugh, you gotta put your NAM in lc to do archy. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 18 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 14:44 EST Wouldn't mind dyin' if dyin' was all. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 19 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 15:56 EST SFRT1 is crumbling; let's see how this place holds up, in case we need some final refuge. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 20 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 16:49 EST Yo, guys, if nobody posts here, they may just decide to kill it. Not that they've bothered with Writers' Ink, and that's been dead as a doornail for damn near a year. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 21 Thu Dec 30, 1999 BROOK.WEST [Brook[&Julia] at 17:05 EST Quack! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 22 Thu Dec 30, 1999 BROOK.WEST [Brook[&Julia] at 17:08 EST Hey, I can't find SFRT1. Tried going live with M470 and it says no such page. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 23 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:10 EST I was just there... ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 24 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:11 EST But now it won't let me back in, even though a LOCs show folks still there. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 25 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 17:14 EST I just came from there, too. Let me see if I can get back... ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 26 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:14 EST I feel like I'm banging on the SFRT door and they won't let me in. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 27 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 17:15 EST Hmm -- got a "NO SUCH PAGE" notice trying to log in. This may really be their last game to keep us out. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 28 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:16 EST Page 440 shows up as gone too. Think they're going in order? But searches on folks who were there show up as their still being there. Does that mean they really can't shut it down if we're here? Doubt that, somehow. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 29 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 17:17 EST Yeah, I just tried 440, too. They can shut us out, evidently. I'm tempted to log off and try to get back in. If it doesn't work, so be it. Wot the hell, if it works I'll come back and tell you. If not... vaya con dios. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 30 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 17:21 EST Nope, couldn't get back in. Just a string of "No Such Page" until I hung up. I' ll try a couple of backdoor approaches and see if it leads to anything useful. And if not, I' ll just hang out here for a while. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 31 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:23 EST I got that string of no such pages, too. Kinda ominous! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 32 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:24 EST Hmm. Page 200 is gone too. They really are going in order, I think. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 33 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:24 EST What's weird is how there's no way to let the people still in 470 know. Unless one of them has two phone lines... ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 34 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 17:26 EST Who's likely still to be there? I take it the NOT command doesn't work any more... been a long time, I think. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 35 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:28 EST NOT still works. And shows Katie and Vampry still inside. Just chatted with Nina that way. Page 5000 is still here. But pages 1 and 2 seem to be gone, too. (If there was a 1 and 2) ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 36 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:29 EST And SFRT2 and 3 are there. Feels like waiting for the approaching scythe! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 37 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:30 EST Hey, Nina got back in! (She must have still been somewhere on 470.) ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 38 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 17:30 EST Yeah, I even started a topic in SFRT3, just for the hell of it. Defiance is about what we've got left, now. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 39 Thu Dec 30, 1999 BROOK.WEST [Brook[&Julia] at 17:31 EST Oh geez. Maybe they're trapped in there forever. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 40 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:31 EST I'm not mournful. But I said I'd be here to the end, and I am! There's something to be said for celebrating at the end of the world. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 41 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:32 EST LOL, Brook! You mean I was the last one to get out? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 42 Thu Dec 30, 1999 BROOK.WEST [Brook[&Julia] at 17:35 EST Hey, IDT! | | \|||| ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 43 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 17:36 EST Well, if nobody else can get on there, once people drop off, it's gone. Guess we ought to do what we can to keep this end of the universe going. I haven't been able to get NOT to work for years; what's the command structure? Or does it only work with certain software? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 44 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.DOYLE1 [Noreen] at 17:37 EST Alas! I get <<>> when trying to get to 470. Have they utterly nuked it? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 45 Thu Dec 30, 1999 BROOK.WEST [Brook[&Julia] at 17:37 EST Janni, it kinda looks that way. Glad you made it, though. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 46 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 17:38 EST We think a few people are still there, Noreen, but once you log off (even for another SFRT) it's unreachable. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 47 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:38 EST It appears so, save for the few folks left inside. Not wors as NOT J.SIMNER Message... Done from the main page--say, go out to SFRT3 straight. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 48 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:39 EST At the least, Katie, Nina, and Vampry seem to be there. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 49 Thu Dec 30, 1999 BROOK.WEST [Brook[&Julia] at 17:40 EST Damn. I have to go for a while. I'll try to get back in in a couple of hours. If I can't make it, see you out on the net. [[[hugs]]] ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 50 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:40 EST Does page 5000 have an message board? Is that really the Very Last Refuge? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 51 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.DOYLE1 [Noreen] at 17:40 EST Who knows how long it will be before the bastards get us here, too? If anyone has the very last posts from anywhere on SFRT1, please send them to me (Wenamun@aol.com). I'll make all the posts available from any topic I have to anyone who asks. Let them know on dm & sff, too. Goodbye! Goodbye! Parting is such sweet sorrow! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 52 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:41 EST See you on the net, Brook! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 53 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 17:42 EST Noreen -- if you have the end of 35/1, I'd like to see it. Email me at the address in the SFWA directory. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 54 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:42 EST And Noreen! Noreen, if you get those posts and send them to me, I'll post them on DM. (janni@simner.com, among other addresses) ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 55 Thu Dec 30, 1999 BROOK.WEST [Brook[&Julia] at 17:46 EST Just in case, would somebody please send me a capture of the rest? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 56 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 17:49 EST So I got in and out of 470 but it was just me and Vampry there, I think. So I came here, and I think she is too. It was very flickery. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 57 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 17:50 EST Oh, thank GOD! I just got in here, and found the rest of you. That's better. At least I go in company, not isolated. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 58 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:51 EST Nina! Katie! You escaped! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 59 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 17:53 EST Yep. I think this is the final hill, General Custer, sir. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 60 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:54 EST Well, there's always page 5000 ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 61 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 17:54 EST Wow, yeah. I tried to go over to 470 (as others have been trying) and it dumped me right back in here. Spooky! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 62 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 17:55 EST NO SUCH PAGE. Title of my next story. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 63 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:55 EST :-) ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 64 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.DOYLE1 [Noreen] at 17:57 EST I just tried to start a new topic in Cat 1, but can't reach the page at all. And I tried to log on to Genie using Genie FE, rather than Online Servant, hoping to force my way into SFRT1. But I got caught in a loop between "General Error" and some other kind of error. I had to reboot. My last pass through SFRT1 was at Logon: 12/30/99 4:37 PM. I know I'm missing at least messages 198-210 (the last being a X-post of mine) in 1/1. If anyone has them, please send them to me. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 65 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:59 EST Hey, that's still more than I have, Noreen. If you think it appropriate, I will post that to DM. (Would do SFF-net too, but don't really know where. Could ask someone to pass it on from there.) ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 66 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:00 EST Noreen, at least you got back on. I'm amazed at that, actually. The bastards. They said 9 tomorrow, and figured we'd never notice. Or else that they'd have it all gone and we wouldn't be able to have a last RTC. Well, bugger 'em; we're managing anyway. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 67 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 18:00 EST Noreen, SFRT! is gone. It seems. Malloc, demon of RT nibblers, has swallowed it. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 68 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 18:01 EST Maloc, who will be appearing as a villian in all our stories soon... ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 69 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:04 EST Dammit, I haven't done any coding in C in *years*, but that's C. It has to do with pointers and memory allocation, so maybe what they're doing is just resetting our pointers closer and closer to the brink. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 70 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 18:05 EST It seemed like the infamous topic 6 caused it, but it was hard to tell. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 71 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 18:05 EST Freeflag still works; you can get on from outside. But these few CATs are it, apparently. Maybe this'll stay alive until 9:00 tomorrow, or maybe they just haven't gotten around to us yet. Nic posted on DM that Genie was officially dead as of 14:15 PST, but the ghost is still making a few rapping noises, it appears. We may get a few more rubberneckers before it's over, since I posted a note on both DM and SFF to the effect that SFRTs 2-4 still seem to be alive. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 72 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 18:07 EST Oh good. I thought about going off and posting a message there. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 73 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 18:08 EST Hey, Peter, cool you came back! SFRT1 is very scary. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 74 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:09 EST Good indeed. This is another time I'm wishing for a second phone line, but if people are getting off and back on, I may try it in a few. Right now, no one can call us, since I've got call waiting blocked. If I get back, great, and if not, it's been an honor. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 75 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 18:09 EST Well, it was still going when I left. Glad to see the refugees are showing up here... ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 76 Thu Dec 30, 1999 SF-ALIEN at 18:11 EST MovieBase is still there. This is how I managed to get in here as page 1 also appears to be gone. THis is the part of the script when the cliff is crumbling under us, isn't it? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 77 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 18:12 EST Seems that way. Time for Indiana Jones to show up in a helicopter. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 78 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 18:13 EST Gotta get some work back. Will try back in a bit. It's been grand, folks! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 79 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 18:20 EST JimB just told me SFRT1 was down. Glad I made it here one last time. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 80 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 18:28 EST Is this the end of Rico? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 81 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:36 EST Back! I made it back online. Didn't think I'd be able to. I know some nodes are now not responding at all. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 82 Thu Dec 30, 1999 M.FREY [Mary] at 18:37 EST So this is where people are. I'm glad I found it. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 83 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 18:38 EST Still here, kindasorta. Teeth and toenails. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 84 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 18:43 EST Made it back! Was afraid I'd be too late. Surely the Enemy will come for us here, next. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 85 Thu Dec 30, 1999 MIKE.K-MAC [Michael] at 18:43 EST SFRT1 is answering "No Such Page" to both RTC and message board requests. The end is very near. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 86 Thu Dec 30, 1999 MIKE.K-MAC [Michael] at 18:44 EST Oh. I see you all knew that already. Time to blow the dust off my death notice for Genie and get it ready to go. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 87 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 18:45 EST Good to see your phosphors, Mike, even if at the very end. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 88 Thu Dec 30, 1999 MIKE.K-MAC [Michael] at 18:45 EST Is anyone else here? I'm going to go to the RTC and hang for a little while. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 89 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 18:52 EST the rtc too!? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 90 Thu Dec 30, 1999 MIKE.K-MAC [Michael] at 18:53 EST I'd kind of like a nice little Industrial Light & Magic effect for the end-- maybe like when you turned off a 1960 B&W TV, and the picture shrank to a white dot on a black screen before finally fading away. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 91 Thu Dec 30, 1999 MIKE.K-MAC [Michael] at 18:54 EST The SFRT4 RTC was still up a minute ago. Harry and I were in there. We tried to /NOTify you and Katie, Lois. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 92 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 18:56 EST I just checked, it works. Karen taylor has the Powers in room 5 there, the back porch, and she was planning to log on to the rtc tonite, if it was still here. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 93 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.DOYLE1 [Noreen] at 18:58 EST I come back from supper expecting to find this gone, too. I am so relieved that it is still here. But for how long? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 94 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 18:58 EST I got your NOTs Mike when I tried the other rtc just now. It is closed and locked against us. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 95 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:59 EST In a way, flash posting here is more fun, and more coherent, than an RTC. Of course it's a very surrealistic way, but what isn't surrealistic about this whole experience? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 96 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:01 EST So OK, we have 50 topics available, with 999 possible posts in each - maybe even more if we can pull off what we did this afternoon. How long can we hold out on such rations? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 97 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:02 EST Wow, I log on, see I have one letter, try to get to MAIL, and get a flood of "No Such Page." Just an endless string until I tell the modem to hang up. It is kind of surreal. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 98 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:04 EST OK, I logged off and on again, now I'm here on the 800 number. THe FF stilll works, so IDT can fucking well pay while I hang out here all night. It was surely spooky, this string of no such page scrolling down my screen forever. They really really are nuking the whole damn thing! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 99 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 19:04 EST That's what I got when I tried to go to SFRT1. Letter was probably spam anyhow. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 100 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:04 EST The mail page is gone, too. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 101 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:05 EST Et Mail, IDioTe? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 102 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:07 EST Actually the mail was probably from the hwa coordinator, with your password to the hwa web site, i got it earlier this aft. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 103 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:07 EST Got the FF this time. Whew. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 104 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:09 EST Oh, jeeze, Lois, there's irony, yes? Who should I write to? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 105 Thu Dec 30, 1999 MIKE.K-MAC [Michael] at 19:09 EST I was just in the RTC and got a NO CARRIER in mid-sentence. I thought that was the end. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 106 Thu Dec 30, 1999 MIKE.K-MAC [Michael] at 19:10 EST I think this is my first official death watch... ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 107 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.DOYLE1 [Noreen] at 19:12 EST I don't think I can get into the RTC. Genie FE, my own means in, didn't work for me before. I'll try it one more time. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 108 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 19:12 EST Mike, this is better than doing it for real. Trust me. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 109 Thu Dec 30, 1999 M.FREY [Mary] at 19:16 EST I just missed =somebody= in the RTC. Who was it? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 110 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 19:18 EST Not guilcup. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 111 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:20 EST Is it just me, or does anyone else think they're doing this the hard, i.e., stupid, way? Why not just lock the main door? I know that can be done; it was done on a few occasions in the past for major housecleaning. Why do it one RT at a time? Stupid. Consitent to the end. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 112 Thu Dec 30, 1999 MIKE.K-MAC [Michael] at 19:20 EST Noreen, which RTC are you trying to get in? I've been in and out of SFRT4's for the last forty minutes. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 113 Thu Dec 30, 1999 M.FREY [Mary] at 19:21 EST We;ve got to stop not meeting like this. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 114 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 19:24 EST Gotta go work. Hope there'll be a here here when I come back. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 115 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:25 EST WORK!? (to quote my hero, Maynard G Krebs) ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 116 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 19:26 EST Obsessive-compulsive. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 117 Thu Dec 30, 1999 M.FREY [Mary] at 19:27 EST You know these writer types. Work at odd hours. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 118 Thu Dec 30, 1999 MIKE.K-MAC [Michael] at 19:27 EST Probably me, Mary. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 119 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:27 EST One argument for adjourning to the rtc, she says practically, is that you can walk away from the keyboard and not get kicked off for being idle. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 120 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 19:28 EST Hi, I'm back again. Glad to see some other folks found the place. So, which topics are we gonna try to bust this time? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 121 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:28 EST Consider the moral judgement implied in that phrase. Being online epitomizes idleness, if we really wanted to stop being idle, we'd be like Harry, log off and go to farking work! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 122 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:30 EST Peter: the whole farking CAT ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 123 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.DOYLE1 [Noreen] at 19:32 EST Michael, I can't log onto Genie at all with Genie FE. As soon as the connection is made, I get flipflopped between 2 messages: The previous API command failed because the parser failed A general error has occurred and the only way for me to get out of the loop is to reboot. It just happened again. Took the Mac a good 5 minutes to come back on line. I'll have to just keep posting here. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 124 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:39 EST I may have to get offline for a while myself. At least I leave the place in good hands. OTOH, I've been running REA ALL NEW for some time now, and there are enough cross-posts each time that as soon as I'm done, I have to start again. Been a long time since there's been this much activity! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 125 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 19:44 EST Yeah, it's like the old days when you could do that all night long. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 126 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 19:45 EST I'm here! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 127 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.STOKES3 [Keith] at 19:45 EST Fighting to the last! Keith ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 128 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:45 EST Susan! You're not mythical! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 129 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:46 EST rtc still works ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 130 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:46 EST Susan! Keith! Hey! Cooolness! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 131 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:46 EST Start a topic, Susan! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 132 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 19:47 EST O-tay! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 133 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:51 EST Caught by the One Last Pass syndrome. Susan! you're HERE! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 134 Thu Dec 30, 1999 DRIZZAN [gregmce.com] at 19:53 EST I find this really damn funny that this RT is still around... ...the reason being that they're deleting all the pages in order, but generally speaking it went by 5s. They totally forgot about 471-473. Some of the higher numbers are gone as well. (Likewise, page 127 is still around even though all of its neighbors are gone. The bulletin board doesn't work any more, but that ceased functioning almost six months ago!) Page 1320 (the Comics RoundTable) is still around, though. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 135 Thu Dec 30, 1999 G.FEELEY1 [Elasas] at 19:54 EST I won't miss Genie at all, oh no I won't miss Genie at all. I'm Rob Sawyer, got places to go I won't miss Genie at all! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 136 Thu Dec 30, 1999 G.FEELEY1 [Elasas] at 19:55 EST I won't miss Genie at all, you sods I won't miss Genie at all Got books to write, ye flippin' gods! I won't miss Genie at all. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 137 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 19:56 EST I'll get you for calling me mythical. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 138 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:57 EST Freaky. Even though page 200 is gone, if I send myself mail from my ISP, when I log on the number of letters waiting increases. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 139 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:58 EST They *missed* us??? Hah! IDT, thy name is incompetence! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 140 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:58 EST It wasn't me, Susan. It was a topic JohnB started that got the rumor going. So they really did forget this page? Weird. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 141 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 19:58 EST What TOP did I leave that spliff in? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 142 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 19:59 EST Humph ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 143 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:59 EST maybe *someone* cast a cloaking spell ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 144 Thu Dec 30, 1999 DRIZZAN [gregmce.com] at 20:00 EST Yep, it seemed that they missed us. I will shortly be conducting an experiment to see just how high they've deleted... Page 500 (the big Genie RTC) is now gone, but Page 1320 (Comics RT) is still alive. The question is... where is the coast line now? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 145 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 20:00 EST Cloaking device ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 146 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 20:00 EST When the No Such Page list scrolled past, it seemed infinite ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 147 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 20:03 EST Everybody's reading and nobody's posting. We gotta do better than that if we want to break the CAT. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 148 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 20:03 EST depends on if you're doing sf or fantasy ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 149 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 20:03 EST Romex (1330) is still open. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 150 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 20:04 EST How far can we retreat? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 151 Thu Dec 30, 1999 DRIZZAN [gregmce.com] at 20:05 EST It seems all four-digit RoundTables and all strangely-numbered RoundTables are still alive; everything else is gone... ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 152 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 20:05 EST So this life raft has become a virtual submarine, eh? Is it yellow? And what was that big, grey thing that went swimming by my porthole? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 153 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.DOYLE1 [Noreen] at 20:08 EST KarenA cannot log on. (She uses Genie FE for Windows.) She is here in spirit, however. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 154 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 20:09 EST Still too slow. Doing five or six BROs in a row without getting any messages. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 155 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 20:10 EST We don't want to kill it TOO fast, we still want to be here in the morning. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 156 Thu Dec 30, 1999 DRIZZAN [gregmce.com] at 20:10 EST Stab slowly. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 157 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 20:12 EST You are, Peter? I still get messages every BRO. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 158 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 20:14 EST Yeah, sometimes -- other times, I get messages five or six BROs in a row. Suppose it depends on how many people are stopping to write... So I suppose I should get five or six messages this time, right? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 159 Thu Dec 30, 1999 G.FEELEY1 [Elasas] at 20:14 EST I won't miss Genie at all, oh no I can't not miss it enough I'm Jim Macdonald, stomp off in a huff I won't miss Genie at all. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 160 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 20:15 EST Okay, I finally did a BRO with nothing showing up. We're slacking! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 161 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 20:15 EST But I did crosspost, so maybe it doesn't count. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 162 Thu Dec 30, 1999 G.FEELEY1 [Elasas] at 20:15 EST I won't miss Genie at all, you commies! They call me the Hammer of God. Laugh at me again, I'll tell your mommies I won't miss Genie at all. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 163 Thu Dec 30, 1999 DRIZZAN [gregmce.com] at 20:16 EST SLACKERS, all of you. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 164 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 20:16 EST Six BROs in a row before Greg's came up. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 165 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 20:16 EST I'm amused. The software jumped from topic 43 to 50 to start a Salmon topic for me. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 166 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 20:17 EST Salmonchanted evening... ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 167 Thu Dec 30, 1999 MIKE.K-MAC [Michael] at 20:18 EST What is Genie FE? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 168 Thu Dec 30, 1999 DRIZZAN [gregmce.com] at 20:18 EST *groan* ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 169 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 20:18 EST You know, Goddam for Windows ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 170 Thu Dec 30, 1999 DRIZZAN [gregmce.com] at 20:19 EST Genie: Fucking Evillandlords (It's actually a really horrible Front End for Windows that never worked very well.) ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 171 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 20:20 EST Why then I'll fit you Hieronymo's mad againe ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 172 Thu Dec 30, 1999 MIKE.K-MAC [Michael] at 20:25 EST Oh, that thing. I didn't think anyone actually used it. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 173 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 20:27 EST YOU'RE NOT POSTING! If you won't post, canter. If you won't canter, gallop! Where's Judy when we need her? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 174 Thu Dec 30, 1999 G.FEELEY1 [Elasas] at 20:28 EST What do Judith Tarr and Catherine the Great have in common? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 175 Thu Dec 30, 1999 DRIZZAN [gregmce.com] at 20:28 EST The thought makes me go blind? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 176 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 20:29 EST Nahhhhhhh ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 177 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 20:35 EST =keletizo= ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 178 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 20:36 EST We're STILL here. I now agree with whoever it was who said that now we'll probably last until 9 am tomorrow, east coast time. No way would IDT pay overtime, and the way it's happening is too STUPID to be a program. Some poor schlub is shutting down RTs by hand. And they missed page 472 almost completely. THEY HAVE MORE CATS! All the topics are closed, but you can still start new ones. I know; I did. Errr, maybe I'd better go check it, though, that was before supper. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 179 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 20:37 EST More Cats! More Cats! And Romex is standing ready to receive us. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 180 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 20:37 EST A further line of retreat! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 181 Thu Dec 30, 1999 SF-ALIEN at 20:45 EST I'm residing in the SFRT4 RTC if anyone wants to drop by. Or is flashchatting more fun? ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 182 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 20:47 EST Hey, we maxed out the number of topics. It's a start. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 183 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 20:49 EST Back, by whatever gods there aren't. Here till my dinner guests arrive. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 184 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 20:51 EST Gonna log off a while -- Jane wants to watch the Bullwinkle videos we got for Christmas. See you later tonight. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 185 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 20:53 EST You know, some lurker could still be hiding in SFRT1, and we wouldn't know. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 186 Thu Dec 30, 1999 MIKE.K-MAC [Michael] at 20:53 EST We could have a nice 10+ RTC if you people would just STOP FARTING AROUND IN HERE! Ahem. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 187 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 20:54 EST Wahhh! I have to go to a band rehearsal for our gig tomorrow night. I hope something's still here when I get back. Last pass.... ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 188 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 20:57 EST But then the results of our efforts wouldn;'t be here for posterity! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 189 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.DOYLE1 [Noreen] at 21:00 EST Still here. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 190 Thu Dec 30, 1999 STARFALL at 21:08 EST Ye gods -- "800 messages". That takes me back. / / * / Starfall * * ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 191 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 21:13 EST going to hang out in rtc ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 192 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.DOYLE1 [Noreen] at 21:16 EST No! No! No! Don't leave me aloooooonnnnnnnnnnne.................. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 193 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 21:26 EST foo, everybody else got to start extra topics, but it wouldn'tlet me! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 194 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 21:54 EST That's because it knows you'll still be here when we're all gone, Lois. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 195 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.DOYLE1 [Noreen] at 22:17 EST I feel like someone has been beating me with a stick. Time to turn in for the night. In the event that midnight is the Endtimes, I bid you all farewell. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 196 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 22:20 EST The RTC is going strong. Will I be back? Ask IDT; they know when they're going to pull the plug, but no one else does. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 197 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.STOKES3 [Keith] at 22:27 EST I will still be trying this place Friday. I will even take the laptop along and try Friday night. Keith ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 198 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 22:36 EST In again! ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 199 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 22:59 EST I'm back. Bullwinkle was his usual heroic stupid self. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 200 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK 23:11 EST Apparently SFRT2 and SFRT3 are now unplugged. Got the "No Such Page" message when I tried logging on. May be closing in on the end sooner than expected. ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 201 Thu Dec 30, 1999 SF-ALIEN at 23:38 EST There will be a post-mortem in the #rtc channel of irc.dm.net soon after we all realize this place is dead... I'm there right now. I'll also be in and out of there all during the 31st and 1st. :) ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 202 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 23:39 EST this is getting close ------------ Category 1, Topic 1 Message 203 Fri Dec 31, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 00:29 EST This is the last message I fear. No one else can get in. If I leave, no one will ever get in. So this is the way the world ends. And I alone was left to tell the tale. ------------ ************ Topic 2 Sat Oct 29, 1994 SF-NIC [Nic] at 15:26 EDT Sub: Feedback to the SFRT4 Sysop Please drop anything you think I should know about here in 1/2. Nic 25 new messages. ************ ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 230 Wed Dec 29, 1999 K.WENTWORTH [Kathy] at 20:32 EST No mice? ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 231 Wed Dec 29, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 20:35 EST Anybody see a tomcat go prowling by? ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 232 Wed Dec 29, 1999 J.FISCUS1 [Jim Fiscus] at 21:56 EST No mice, but many rats in IDT management. ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 233 Wed Dec 29, 1999 A.GORMLEY1 [Adrienne] at 22:31 EST But will they take the bait of you set out a rat trap? ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 234 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.FISCUS1 [Jim Fiscus] at 00:36 EST Only if the trap is baited with another member of their pack. This all has to have become a giant tax scam of some sort. ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 235 Thu Dec 30, 1999 C.HIRSCH1 [Lili Marlene] at 08:23 EST That's my theory, Jim F. ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 236 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.FISCUS1 [Jim Fiscus] at 10:20 EST As we stand leaning against the Genie lamp post, the rats nibble our toes -- and the base of the lamp post. ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 237 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 14:03 EST I can ring 'em up easy. ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 238 Thu Dec 30, 1999 I.MCDOWELL [Ian] at 19:44 EST I'm guessing that SFRT1 is now gone, since when I enter that I get an endlessly scrolling screen of "no such page." ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 239 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:47 EST SFRT1 is gone, and so is 200. However, I have a letter. ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 240 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:47 EST Yeah, the Enemy has taken the Keep, but we've taken up a last stand here. ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 241 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:52 EST The final hill, with the orcs all about. But the eagles of DM and SFF are winging down the wind. ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 242 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:56 EST The thanes in the Saxon shield-wall fall one by one. King Harold is down with an arrow in his eye. The Norman knights are massing below us. ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 243 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 19:58 EST Hige sceal the heardre heorte the cenre Mod sceal the maere the ure maegen lytlath (Battle of Maldon) ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 244 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 20:00 EST Just so ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 245 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 20:07 EST How do you tie your tongue in those knots to speak those words, Susan? ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 246 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 20:13 EST Take a deep breath. Bryhtwald spoke -- he was an old retainer -- And very boldly he instructed the host "Let our thoughts be higher, our hearts more keen Our courage sterner as our strength lessens. ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 247 Thu Dec 30, 1999 JOHN.BARNES [John Barnes] at 20:22 EST Put on the skillet Put it to fry Harold's on the ground with an arrow in his eye. ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 248 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 20:23 EST Eeeeeewwwwww! ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 249 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 20:37 EST I think I prefer Susan's to John's. ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 250 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 20:38 EST So do I. ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 251 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 21:11 EST Back, but I keep getting bumped in midpost ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 252 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 21:12 EST Okay, *that* worked. Posterity is Us, Janni, and I'm running a capture. ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 253 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 23:00 EST Wow, nearly two hours since the last posts. Leave you guys to run the place for a while, and look what happens... ------------ Category 1, Topic 2 Message 254 Thu Dec 30, 1999 SF-NIGHTOWL at 23:11 EST The important question is this: Is tomorrow a Genie holiday? ------------ ************ Topic 3 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:12 EST Sub: Dancing in the abyss 24 new messages. ************ ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 1 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:12 EST SFRT1 is fading away... so we dance on what ground we can. ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 2 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 17:50 EST You are the lord of the dance. ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 3 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:51 EST Well, there's no one else here fighting me for the title. ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 4 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 17:54 EST No, no, no... no Lord of the dance. The three of us all seem to be Ladies of the dance. ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 5 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 17:56 EST I was thinking of the guy in the song. Danced when the world began, danced a bunch of other times. Can't remember which ones. ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 6 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:56 EST That works for me! ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 7 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:57 EST "There's nothing we can do but hold each other on that darkling plain... and dance." -- Richard Bowker ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 8 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:00 EST Dance, Shiva, dance. Whirl, Mehitabel, whirl. Works for me. ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 9 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 18:01 EST La vie est breve Un peu d'espoir, Un peu de reve Et puis -- Bon soir! ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 10 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:05 EST (I would try "Sieur la Puent de Avignnon", but that much shows that I have NO idea how to spell in French. But I think that's how it sounds.) ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 11 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 18:06 EST Sur la pont D'Avignon on y danse, on y danse Sur la pont d'Avignon on y danse tout le monde. ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 12 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:09 EST Thanks, Nina, knew someone could fix it. ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 13 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 18:10 EST Good song for this topic!@ Glad you thought of it. ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 14 Thu Dec 30, 1999 JOHN.BARNES [John Barnes] at 18:31 EST Well, I done my bit. Six new topics. Each more interesting than much of what we did talk about on Genie. ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 15 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 18:32 EST Hello, JohnB. Funny how my freeflag works now when it mostly hasn't the past few months. They ain't getting my nickel, damn them. ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 16 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:37 EST Oh, I SO do hope this wasn't a tax write-off. I so DO hope they're expecting to make money on web-Genie. ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 17 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 18:39 EST Can they really be that dumb? Well, you never can tell with them. ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 18 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 18:44 EST For all (x) if x is IDT, they can be that dumb. ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 19 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 18:59 EST More topics! More topics! Thanks, JohnB. ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 20 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:00 EST And now I've added one. My first new topic in ages. Sort of fitting that it be on the last day. ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 21 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:02 EST ack! No freeflag! I better log off. Russian roulette... ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 22 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:20 EST Hope that was from before she logged off and back on and got re-flagged. ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 23 Thu Dec 30, 1999 WATT-EVANS [Lawrence] at 21:32 EST "I danced in the morning when the Earth was begun And I danced in the moon and the stars and the sun I danced up to heaven and I danced down on earth In Bethlehem I had my birth. Dance, dance, wherever you may be I am the lord of the dance, said he And I'll lead you all, whoever you may be I'll lead you all in the dance, said he." (To the same tune as the Shaker hymn "Simple Gifts." This was the song my sister chose for her memorial service.) ------------ Category 1, Topic 3 Message 24 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 21:33 EST It's wonderful. ------------ ************ Topic 4 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:33 EST Sub: We're Here! We're Here! 49 new messages. ************ ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 1 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:33 EST Well, I am, anyway. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 2 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:35 EST And again I say, I am here! ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 3 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 17:37 EST Because we're here. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 4 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 17:55 EST Because *we're* here! ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 5 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:56 EST We are! ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 6 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:01 EST Yep. Wonder if there is anybody else, on ANY other RT? I doubt it. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 7 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 18:01 EST We're not! ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 8 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 18:02 EST You mean, you don't think anyone else is quite this insane? :-) ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 9 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:06 EST No, no, no, mes amis! Fort Zindernuff ess not insane. For France and la glorie! ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 10 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 18:06 EST Actually, I crossposted with Katie. We're here. We're not! ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 11 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:10 EST Well, I'm going to be Not Here for a few. Need to log off and phone someone, then see if I can get back on. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 12 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 18:11 EST I got to go eat something to tether my head on before it floats away. If I don't see you guys again -- it's been totally swell! au revoir. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 13 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 18:12 EST It's been cool, Nina! ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 14 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 18:22 EST The few, the proud, the stubborn, goddammit. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 15 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:38 EST You bet, Harry. I tried to explain this to a friend, also a Genieite but one who's now accepted that it's Dead and couldn't understand why I wanted to get on one last time. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 16 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 18:44 EST It won't be dead as long as we can keep it alive ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 17 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:01 EST I'm almost afraid to try any other page, though. The waters are rising fast. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 18 Thu Dec 30, 1999 MIKE.K-MAC [Michael] at 19:20 EST No, _I'M_ here. You're over there. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 19 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:21 EST Not any more you're not. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 20 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:21 EST Then who's that over THERE? ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 21 Thu Dec 30, 1999 M.FREY [Mary] at 19:22 EST We ought to just decide to go the the RTC at a certain time. But I am also cooking dinner while running this barefoot. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 22 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 19:22 EST The Scarlet Pimpernel! ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 2 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:23 EST Not I, not I, said the spider to the fly. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 24 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:24 EST They seek him here, they seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere! ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 25 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:24 EST Goose! ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 26 Thu Dec 30, 1999 MIKE.K-MAC [Michael] at 19:27 EST I just got the call for dinner, so I'm going to go park myself in the RTC AFK until I can get back. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 27 Thu Dec 30, 1999 M.FREY [Mary] at 19:27 EST one potato ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 28 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 19:29 EST After the fox, after the fox, off to the hunt with chains and locks, oh.. After the fox, after the fox, Somebody's always chasin' after the fox! ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 29 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 19:30 EST Had some Smithfield ham and jambalaya for supper; fed the cats; put out the recycling. Now I'm back. Nic announced the official Death of Genie as of 14:15 PST, so I guess anybody who was on then can claim they were here until the plug was pulled. But there's life in the old board yet... ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 30 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:40 EST So there is. Has anyone tried to get to 470 lately? ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 31 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:41 EST Yeah, you get no such page ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 32 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 19:46 EST I'm here. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 33 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:48 EST Yaaay! ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 34 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:52 EST Damned good to see you, too. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 35 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:59 EST What Katie said. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 36 Thu Dec 30, 1999 MIKE.K-MAC [Michael] at 20:18 EST I'm back. No one else was there, so I'm here. Good grief, you folks added 308 messages while I ate. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 37 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 20:20 EST In theory, we can post 49,950 messages in just this category. The which it's the only category we got. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 38 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 20:21 EST Nah, we could go take over SFRT2 and SFRT3, if we want to. We should spread around the mayhem... ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 39 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 20:24 EST K-Mac, I popped into the RTC several times while you were AFK. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 40 Thu Dec 30, 1999 MIKE.K-MAC [Michael] at 20:25 EST I can't go to SFRT2 or 3 -- no freeflag. (I'm not giving them another nickel.) ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 41 Thu Dec 30, 1999 DRIZZAN [gregmce.com] at 20:26 EST Freeflags didn't extend to all four SFRTs? You learn something new every day. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 42 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 20:26 EST What, aren't you automatically freeflagged there? I thought it was good for all four SFRTs. Gonna go see. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 43 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 20:27 EST Freeflag stayed on both places. I think you're OK there, K-Mac. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 44 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 20:28 EST We SHOULD have the FFs in all 4 ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 45 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 20:38 EST I don't think we can possibly fill all the RTs before dawn, even if we all posted all night. There are still other CATegories on 472! ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 46 Thu Dec 30, 1999 MIKE.K-MAC [Michael] at 20:51 EST Well, I guess I could check, too. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 47 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 20:51 EST Let's put on a show! ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 48 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 20:54 EST I'm doing a show tomorrow night. ------------ Category 1, Topic 4 Message 49 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 21:12 EST We're doing one here tonight! ------------ ************ Topic 5 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:37 EST Sub: Who will get the last word? 68 new messages. ************ ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 1 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:37 EST Me! Me! ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 2 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 17:40 EST Could be... ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 3 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:41 EST I see through that trick... ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 4 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 17:42 EST Trick? Moi? ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 5 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:43 EST No! You can't have it! ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 6 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 17:43 EST Have what, Janni? ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 7 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:44 EST Dum dee dum... ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 8 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 17:46 EST Hey, you can have it, anyway. I got the last one (and the first in over a year) on Music, and the last on Writer's. Besides, I gotta go finish making dinner. If the place is still here when I finish eating, I'll say Hi. Otherwise -- it's been fun. See ya online. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 9 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:47 EST See you online. I have to get back to work, myself. May keep myself logged on and check in now and then, though, so long as we don't need the phone line... ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 10 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 17:51 EST Dang, you guys are probably gone by now. Wave wave at your departing shadows! ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 11 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:52 EST Some of us aren't quite gone. Yet. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 12 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 17:52 EST I know you're trying to sneak away! I sort of am too. Haven't had breakfast yet and my feet are cold. Eee! ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 13 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 17:53 EST Not that those two things are related. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 14 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:53 EST No breakfast? Eek! Signed, a Morning Person ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 15 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 17:54 EST Got up, logged on, saw we're circling the drain, hour and a half later still here, whirling around and around. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 16 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:56 EST And around, and around... ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 17 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 17:56 EST Yeah, but I figured, this is a once in a lifetime deal. I just realized. The hell with Y2K; I'm feeling this more than I will the loss of a pair of digits, 1 and 9! ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 18 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:58 EST Actually, I'm ready to move on. But I had to be here myself to make it real! ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 19 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 18:02 EST Thanks for all your fabulous arm waving, Janni. Hey, Katie, thanks to you too for years o' fun and ferrets. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 20 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:02 EST Exactly, Janni. But as I said elsewhere, and this time it's not completely a joke, it would be a hell of a lot easier if we could see them coming. If they actually had set an honest time and had stuck to it. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 21 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 18:02 EST Nah! More adventure in it this way! :-) ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 22 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 18:03 EST Are emoticons out of place at the end of the world? ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 23 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 18:07 EST Evidently one can still get in from the outside. So we may get a bit more company before the ol' canoe finally sinks. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 24 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 18:07 EST I spit on people who spit on emoticons! >8)''' ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 25 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:07 EST I started to put a on something earlier, decided that it was a pretty damned grim grin on this end, rather feral in fact, with plenty of teeth, decided that a simple would be misinterpretted, and let it go. All of my grins at the moment are a bit feral. Do wish I had someone to bite. Except then I'd need rabies shots, to protect me from *them.* ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 26 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 18:09 EST I keep laughing. Oh dear. Maybe it's hunger talking. :) Katie, you can do that kzin thing, no? Never did it, how's it go? <^^^^> ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 27 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:11 EST OH yeah. And a <^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^> to IDT, and may they someday feel the non- virtual teeth! ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 28 Thu Dec 30, 1999 SF-ALIEN at 18:12 EST Last word? Last syllable, perhaps. Last phoneme? ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 29 Thu Dec 30, 1999 SF-ALIEN at 18:13 EST I almost don't want to log off. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 30 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 18:14 EST Know the feeling. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 31 Thu Dec 30, 1999 JOHN.BARNES [John Barnes] at 18:17 EST And in the end The love you take Is equal to the love You make. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 32 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 18:24 EST This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a No such page. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 33 Thu Dec 30, 1999 SF-ALIEN at 18:28 EST I gotta log off to get home. WIll the world errr Genie still be there in an hour? ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 34 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:39 EST I dunno, but I was able to get back on, even if line noise (but WAS it?) threw me off twice. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 35 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 18:41 EST I made it over to 541 (the deceased History RT, where Cat 1 is re-created) and back, and even got my fornicating freeflag back when I did. Crazy. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 36 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 18:46 EST I tried 541 earlier, Harry, but it was all gone. NOt the no such page, but all the topics. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 37 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:00 EST I started a new one there, Just Because. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 38 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 19:01 EST Me, too. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 39 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:02 EST You know, if there really ARE minions back at IDT trying to shut it down around us, that's typically braindead. As a matter of fact, it's braindead even if it's programmed. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 40 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:05 EST ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 41 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 19:09 EST Water's getting deep. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 42 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:12 EST Can't get out, so you might as well swim. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 43 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:19 EST Air's getting thin. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 44 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:25 EST Times are gettin hard, boys, Money's getting scarce If times don't get much better, boys I'm bound to leave this place Take your sweetheart by the hand Lead her through the town Say good-bye to everyone, Good-bye to everyone. Aw... ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 45 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:27 EST And if that5 mockingbird don't sing Mama gonna buy you a diamond ring ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 46 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 19:30 EST A hard rain's gonna fall... ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 47 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 19:32 EST I suspect anything that's still left now will be good overnight. IDT ain't paying overtime for people to shut it down -- or so goes my best guess. Serve me right to have 'em cut me off in mid-phosphor. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 48 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:33 EST If nic announced the Death at 4:15 PST, wasn't that like before it happened? ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 49 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:34 EST Hey, Kara, Peter, Hi! Red rain... ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 50 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:41 EST Lois, maybe he couldn't get back in. I'll swear they're disconnecting nodes at random. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 51 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 19:45 EST Hi, Nina! Enjoying the heat death of the universe? (Well, a virtual universe...) ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 52 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 19:45 EST Or maybe that's when you stopped being able to get onto 470 from outside. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 53 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 19:47 EST Kind of like the end of CHILDHOOD'S END. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 54 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:47 EST I'm not sure what the verb is for this. :) ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 55 Thu Dec 30, 1999 DRIZZAN [gregmce.com] at 19:53 EST Just in case it blows up right after me... ME! ME! ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 56 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 19:56 EST flashchat! ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 57 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:57 EST You want flashchat, you should have seen us this afternoon, we broke topic 6 in a frenzied 20 minutes! ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 58 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 20:00 EST No, ME! ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 59 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 20:39 EST Gee, 38 minutes since the last attempt at a last word. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 60 Thu Dec 30, 1999 DRIZZAN [gregmce.com] at 20:41 EST Nyeah! ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 61 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 20:52 EST Last tag! ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 62 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 20:55 EST Guten tag. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 63 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 21:13 EST Guten morgen. ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 64 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 21:13 EST morgengab ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 65 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 21:56 EST frink! ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 66 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 22:20 EST frack! ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 67 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 22:49 EST ribbit! ------------ Category 1, Topic 5 Message 68 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 23:01 EST splortch! ------------ ************ Topic 6 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:45 EST Sub: I wonder... ...just how many topics it would take to break this place. 11 new messages. ************ ------------ Category 1, Topic 6 Message 1 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 17:51 EST Don't give up yet. ------------ Category 1, Topic 6 Message 2 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 17:57 EST Never give up! NEVER surrender! ------------ Category 1, Topic 6 Message 3 Thu Dec 30, 1999 JOHN.BARNES [John Barnes] at 18:18 EST How about turning tail and running like a bunny? ------------ Category 1, Topic 6 Message 4 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:40 EST Considering that this place is now held together with rotten rubberbands, I doubt if it would take much. ------------ Category 1, Topic 6 Message 5 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 18:46 EST Then we will fight them in the shade! ------------ Category 1, Topic 6 Message 6 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:04 EST Wish I knew if our Enemy knows we are here, or if we're just fighting on for the glory and fun of it. ------------ Category 1, Topic 6 Message 7 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:12 EST Oh, I suspect it's just glory and fun. ------------ Category 1, Topic 6 Message 8 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:23 EST Yeah, you're probably right. Which is very frustrating, because I wish there were a way to make the bastards know they hurt real PEOPLE here. ------------ Category 1, Topic 6 Message 9 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:26 EST ~b O, tidings of comfort and joy ~b nothing like a little non sequitur. ------------ Category 1, Topic 6 Message 10 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 19:33 EST We'll sic the bunnies on 'em. Bun bun bun bun... ------------ Category 1, Topic 6 Message 11 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 20:52 EST We'll kick their buns. ------------ ************ Topic 7 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:45 EST Sub: But that's just idle curiosity, really. 6 new messages. ************ ------------ Category 1, Topic 7 Message 1 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 17:51 EST Aw, come on. Keep trying. ------------ Category 1, Topic 7 Message 2 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 17:57 EST We're with you. ------------ Category 1, Topic 7 Message 3 Thu Dec 30, 1999 G.FEELEY1 [Elasas] at 20:49 EST I'll say something serious . . . There were occasions when I could have made points by joining an editor or two in mocking some SF writer. I always refused, sometimes annoying the editor. This was an editor who could do something for my career, and did, for a while. There are many writers who would not have hesitated to dis me for brownie points. Some of them were prominent on Genie. ------------ Category 1, Topic 7 Message 4 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 20:52 EST Alas, it takes great fortitude to bite the hand that pays one. ------------ Category 1, Topic 7 Message 5 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 20:54 EST I can't judge myself whether I've succeeded, but I always did try to avoid playing those sorts of games. ------------ Category 1, Topic 7 Message 6 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 21:14 EST The one with the rejection slip in one hand and your ms in the other ------------ ************ Topic 8 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:46 EST Sub: And the answer is probably unknowable 11 new messages. ************ ------------ Category 1, Topic 8 Message 1 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 17:58 EST Oh come ON. I don't know if we'll have time to get to the answer. That would be to stop with message #42, wouldn't it? ------------ Category 1, Topic 8 Message 2 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 20:13 EST Probably ineffable. ------------ Category 1, Topic 8 Message 3 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 20:14 EST And certainly messy. ------------ Category 1, Topic 8 Message 4 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 20:24 EST Besides, we can't handle the Truth. ------------ Category 1, Topic 8 Message 5 Thu Dec 30, 1999 G.FEELEY1 [Elasas] at 20:30 EST Handle the truth, and it swells and grows hard. Continue long enough, and you're in for a surprise! ------------ Category 1, Topic 8 Message 6 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 20:39 EST Euwwww! ------------ Category 1, Topic 8 Message 7 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 20:41 EST Yeah, but then the Truth just gets all floppy and useless and only wants to go to sleep. ------------ Category 1, Topic 8 Message 8 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 20:42 EST Sometimes it wants to smoke. ------------ Category 1, Topic 8 Message 9 Thu Dec 30, 1999 G.FEELEY1 [Elasas] at 20:42 EST The Truth will set you free, but will it get you off? ------------ Category 1, Topic 8 Message 10 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 20:42 EST If you get off on the truth. ------------ Category 1, Topic 8 Message 11 Thu Dec 30, 1999 G.FEELEY1 [Elasas] at 20:44 EST It's not enough to get off on the Truth. You have to be considerate and let the Truth get off as well. ------------ ************ Topic 9 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:50 EST Sub: Burn the furniture! Burn the walls! Burn it all! 24 new messages. ************ ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 1 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:50 EST Take no prisoners! ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 2 Thu Dec 30, 1999 JOHN.BARNES [John Barnes] at 18:19 EST Kill the women and children first! Remember, no bystander is innocent! ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 3 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:40 EST But remember, SAVE THE SHEEP! ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 4 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 18:42 EST Nuke the sheep! ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 5 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:00 EST _Eat_ the sheep! ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 6 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 19:01 EST Nuke 'em first. You'll love the glow they give you. ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 7 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:05 EST And the glow will keep the room bright when the lights go out! ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 8 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:05 EST Hey, and then the wool would glow too, so we could make some really cool clothes... ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 9 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:05 EST I thought that was "fuck the sheep" Or is that a different topic? ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 10 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:09 EST Roast the sheep. Yum! ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 11 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:13 EST It will be a different topic if you open it, Lois. ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 12 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:24 EST Actually, Lois, that was always the impression *I'd* gotten as well. But what do I know? ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 13 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:26 EST Throw another sheep on the fire! ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 14 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 19:32 EST Ewe want to ram the point home, do you? (she said, horning in.) ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 15 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:34 EST Sound the trumpets! Blare the alarms! ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 16 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:35 EST Let all the sensuous world proclaim One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. Signed, aged and nameless. ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 17 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:42 EST Sheep jokes? But I thought fish puns were the usual game. ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 18 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:43 EST Burn the fish, too! Bring out the tartar sauce! ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 19 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 19:45 EST Dynamite 'em. ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 20 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 19:46 EST Blackened redfish, anyone? ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 21 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:46 EST ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 22 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:47 EST Here's the Orville Reddenbacher popcorn. ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 23 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:53 EST ------------ Category 1, Topic 9 Message 24 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 20:00 EST ------------ ************ Topic 10 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:52 EST Sub: Nina said not to give up So I won't 16 new messages. ************ ------------ Category 1, Topic 10 Message 1 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 17:56 EST You're a good woman, Janni Lee. But I feel that we are dying, Egypt, dying. ------------ Category 1, Topic 10 Message 2 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:58 EST No! No! Keep trying! ------------ Category 1, Topic 10 Message 3 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 18:03 EST Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owner. --George Louis Palmella Busson Du Maurier (1834-1896) ------------ Category 1, Topic 10 Message 4 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 18:25 EST But fun, Nina. ------------ Category 1, Topic 10 Message 5 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:42 EST I'm glad I'm running a capture on this; it will let me know who else is crazy enough to do last stands, just in case I ever find myself taking part in another one. ------------ Category 1, Topic 10 Message 6 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:04 EST Cool to see new guys have arrived since I went off to eat cashew nuts. ------------ Category 1, Topic 10 Message 7 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:06 EST I logged onto SFRT1 this morning, planning to make a fast pass, post a bit, then do some work before coming back for one last RTC. Instead I've spent most of the day here. But it's a once in lifetime thing. ------------ Category 1, Topic 10 Message 8 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 19:48 EST God, you guys have guts. Brains? Maybe not. You're all heart. ------------ Category 1, Topic 10 Message 9 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:49 EST We would while away the hours, Conversing with the flowers, Or merely the nearest local equivalent... ------------ Category 1, Topic 10 Message 10 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:54 EST Oh, I'll happily cop to being crazy, Susan. No brains at ALL. ;-> ------------ Category 1, Topic 10 Message 11 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 20:00 EST My brains say there's nothing I can do, so I might as well dance. ------------ Category 1, Topic 10 Message 12 Thu Dec 30, 1999 DRIZZAN [gregmce.com] at 20:18 EST Pizza delivery! ------------ Category 1, Topic 10 Message 13 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 20:25 EST I didn't order a pizza. What's it got on it? ------------ Category 1, Topic 10 Message 14 Thu Dec 30, 1999 DRIZZAN [gregmce.com] at 20:27 EST It's a SAUSAGE pizza... ::bow-chika-bow-chika-bow-bow-bow:: ...an ELEVEN-INCH SAUSAGE pizza... ::bow-chika-wah-wah-bow-chika-bow:: ------------ Category 1, Topic 10 Message 15 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 20:27 EST Yum! ------------ Category 1, Topic 10 Message 16 Thu Dec 30, 1999 DRIZZAN [gregmce.com] at 20:29 EST ::the lights start strobing as the music is cranked up:: ------------ ************ Topic 11 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:53 EST Sub: Even if, really, I have nothing left to Even if, really, I have nothing left to say. I mean, what does one say at the end of the world? 10 new messages. ************ ------------ Category 1, Topic 11 Message 1 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 17:58 EST Now the day is over, Night is drawing nigh; Shadows of the evening Steal across the sky. Comfort every sufferer Watching late in pain... Sabine Baring-Gould, "Now the Day is Over." ------------ Category 1, Topic 11 Message 2 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 18:00 EST I do not approve And I am not resigned ------------ Category 1, Topic 11 Message 3 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 18:04 EST What matter if it be a fool's paradise? Paradise is paradise, for whoever owns it! (same guy as last quote. His name is too damned long to say again!) ------------ Category 1, Topic 11 Message 4 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:44 EST In Xanadu did Kubli Khan A stately pleasure dome decree... But here comes the person from Porlock-IDT to interrupt the dream, damn him. ------------ Category 1, Topic 11 Message 5 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 19:32 EST We are not amused. ------------ Category 1, Topic 11 Message 6 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:37 EST Kara wins. ------------ Category 1, Topic 11 Message 7 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:42 EST ------------ Category 1, Topic 11 Message 8 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 19:48 EST Er, thank you, but I believe some member of the British Royal Family deserves the credit for the line. My only contribution was knowing when to requote it. ------------ Category 1, Topic 11 Message 9 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:54 EST Ah, but timing is *everything*, Kara. ------------ Category 1, Topic 11 Message 10 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 20:01 EST What Katie said. (Again!) ------------ ************ Topic 12 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:54 EST Sub: Happy New Year! To all! 34 new messages. ************ ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 1 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 17:59 EST Happy new year to you too. Douzo yoi o-toshio. ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 2 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 18:08 EST Whoopee! ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 3 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:44 EST Am I the only one here who thinks Friday night will be rather anti-climatic after today? ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 4 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 18:47 EST How can we be happy if t here is no genie? ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 5 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 18:52 EST Drugs? ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 6 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 18:53 EST It would help like assuage the pain. ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 7 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:04 EST Amontillado. ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 8 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:07 EST Have some madeira, m'dear. ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 9 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:08 EST As we dance to the masochism tango! Tra la! ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 10 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 19:09 EST Soon we'll go sliding down the razor blade of life. eeeuw. ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 11 Thu Dec 30, 1999 M.FREY [Mary] at 19:17 EST Madeira? Is this the room where the buffet is set up? ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 12 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:25 EST The bar is now open. Who's pouring? Double everythings for everybody! ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 13 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:27 EST Turn on the spigot Pour the beer and swig it And gaudiamus igutur (Sorry, Lois.) ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 14 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:29 EST gaudeamus igitur ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 15 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 19:33 EST A Singapore Sling for me, go heavy on the fruit juice. ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 16 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 19:34 EST Roll a fat one. ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 17 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:36 EST Doobies! ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 18 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:42 EST Zombies seem appropriate, somehow. ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 19 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 19:48 EST Don't bogart that joint, my friend, pass it over to me.... ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 20 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:55 EST ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 21 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 20:09 EST Hhhfffffftttt.......((holding it in)).....Phhhhhhhewwwwww. "Here ya go," she grins through a cloud of green smoke.... ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 22 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 20:10 EST Aha, that's where I left the spliff! ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 23 Thu Dec 30, 1999 DRIZZAN [gregmce.com] at 20:11 EST Gak! I'm just getting over bronchitis! ::flees topic:: ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 24 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 20:12 EST Gage is a natural herb. While I've got you here, let me tell you about Swiss Kris... ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 25 Thu Dec 30, 1999 SF-ALIEN at 20:24 EST This is all Xenu's doing, isn't it? ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 26 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 20:26 EST I hear Louis Armstrong really liked that stuff. ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 27 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 20:28 EST Liked 'em both. ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 28 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 20:41 EST Swiss Kris? ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 29 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 20:41 EST Never heard of it, Katie? ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 30 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 20:56 EST We get stoned, we get too lazy to post. We get drunk, we get too stupid to post. But who'd notice that? Doubles all around! ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 31 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 21:14 EST Seriously, no, I haven't, Kara. I led a sheltered life before Genie. ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 32 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 21:33 EST Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end... ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 33 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 21:56 EST It's the end of the world as we know it... ------------ Category 1, Topic 12 Message 34 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 23:02 EST It's good stuff -- Satch swore by it. ------------ ************ Topic 13 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:55 EST Sub: You know... If IDT really does archive all this, I'm going to be pretty embarrassed one day 9 new messages. ************ ------------ Category 1, Topic 13 Message 1 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 18:08 EST Always know. ------------ Category 1, Topic 13 Message 2 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:45 EST I won't be, Janni. WE are not the ones who did every single fucking thing *wrong*; that was IDT. We merely bear witness. ------------ Category 1, Topic 13 Message 3 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:10 EST But Katie, tell us how you =really= feel. ------------ Category 1, Topic 13 Message 4 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:29 EST Nina, <^^^^^^> I'd love to tell *them*. But unfortunately, it would be like the one time I quit a job on principle. The plastic little tweep who was my supervisor, whose blatant but non-actionable racism made me decide to quit, listened to my full rant, and I did indeed spell things out, without losing it and just screaming or swearing. But I told him he was slime, and why, and why I was quiting, and what I thought of him. Pure plastic; it rolled right off him. Nodded, blinked, pleasant little Ken- doll smile never slipped. "I'm sorry you feel that way." Boom. It made me furious, because there was no way really to REACH the rodent. And I'm afraid the masters of IDT are exactly the same. ------------ Category 1, Topic 13 Message 5 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 19:35 EST Katie> That just might have been his "professional" face. For all you know the plastic tweep might have gone home that night and cried his eyes out. Did you expect him to fall to his knees before you and beg forgiveness for being a twerp? If it sank in at all, he would not have let you see it, I'm betting. ------------ Category 1, Topic 13 Message 6 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:44 EST Oh, I didn't expect him to burst out crying on the spot, but I would have appreciated some actual indication that he understood what I *said*. No doubt you're right, though. I just do NOT grok that type. ------------ Category 1, Topic 13 Message 7 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 20:10 EST No doubt his type doth not grok you, and you are better off for it. ------------ Category 1, Topic 13 Message 8 Thu Dec 30, 1999 JOHN.BARNES [John Barnes] at 20:28 EST I do not grok thee, plastic Ken, And have not grokked since who knows when But this I know -- and say again -- I do not grok thee, plastic Ken. ------------ Category 1, Topic 13 Message 9 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 20:41 EST Bravo! ------------ ************ Topic 14 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 17:55 EST Sub: Which means that anyone else left here should start a few topics, too. 4 new messages. ************ ------------ Category 1, Topic 14 Message 1 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:46 EST Heavens, I haven't started a topic in ages! Sounds like fun. ------------ Category 1, Topic 14 Message 2 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 18:47 EST If we start enough new topics, does Cat 2 open? Shall we find out? ------------ Category 1, Topic 14 Message 3 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:01 EST For anyone who has forgotten how, the command is STA ------------ Category 1, Topic 14 Message 4 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:08 EST I remembered that, Janni, but I found an odd command that DOESN'T work any more. It's the simple ?, which for those of us running without prompts would always, in the past, list the menu options. Only now it doesn't. ------------ ************ Topic 15 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.DOYLE1 [Noreen] at 17:59 EST Sub: We Post, Therefore It Is 5 new messages. ************ ------------ Category 1, Topic 15 Message 1 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.DOYLE1 [Noreen] at 18:02 EST I hope that the more topics there are, the harder it is for them to take us down. ------------ Category 1, Topic 15 Message 2 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 18:04 EST Make 'em work at it! ------------ Category 1, Topic 15 Message 3 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:46 EST Yep. If we can't fight back, we can at least kick and bite and struggle. ------------ Category 1, Topic 15 Message 4 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:11 EST Kick bite scratch kill! Don't let them get their fill! Scratch kick kill bite! Fight! Fight! Fight, fight, fight! Ah, my cheerleading days of yore. ------------ Category 1, Topic 15 Message 5 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:29 EST Since when is it a disaster if the S on your cape is a little frayed? ------------ ************ Topic 16 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 18:04 EST Sub: A topic for Lois 'Cause it seems really strange that she's not here, protesting all the way. 39 new messages. ************ ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 1 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 18:26 EST Sometimes first is as good as last. Sometimes they're the same. ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 2 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:47 EST Don't know what that means, but I'm posting a response to every new message I can find. ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 3 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 18:48 EST I'm here, and I'm lamenting all the way. ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 4 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 18:52 EST Vae victis! ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 5 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 18:53 EST Vae IDioTibus! ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 6 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 18:57 EST A classic, Lois. ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 7 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.DOYLE1 [Noreen] at 18:58 EST ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 8 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 18:59 EST Revenge! ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 9 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:02 EST Yaaay! She's here! ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 10 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:09 EST Janni, do you know how ODD that looked? Doom, despair, rage, revenge, and then your Yaaay! Most peculiar. ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 11 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:12 EST Hands off! Stand back! Leave us alone! You shall not rob us of our own: We will be free! We will be free! God and Right our standard be. War song of the Boers. ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 12 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 19:13 EST ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 13 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:14 EST Well, you all need someone to unsettle you. Even at the End of the World. ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 14 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.DOYLE1 [Noreen] at 19:16 EST ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 15 Thu Dec 30, 1999 MIKE.K-MAC [Michael] at 19:20 EST Is Lois still using a DOS computer? ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 16 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:21 EST Yes, she is. A diehard to the end in all ways, she is. ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 17 Thu Dec 30, 1999 M.FREY [Mary] at 19:22 EST As in "If it ain't broke, don't fix it?" ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 18 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:24 EST Damn straight. If it works, why fuck with it? ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 19 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:27 EST But it's not the end of Lois. ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 20 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:30 EST Nina, I see you finally made it to dm.net ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 21 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:31 EST Same reason they always fuck with it, Lois; because they can. Dammit. ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 22 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:31 EST It's a conspiracy. ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 23 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 19:36 EST The lights are still on here. ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 24 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 19:36 EST But for how long? ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 25 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:38 EST I got a letter, Lois, but I haven't been over there yet. There's world enough and time for that later. Now I want to be here...though I also want to shower, and go to the P.O. Box, and buy some eggnog before they stop selling it... ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 26 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:40 EST One fears to log off, that it will be the last time. ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 27 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 19:50 EST Three cheers for Lois! ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 28 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:51 EST I wonder if I've still got it??? ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 29 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:52 EST LAMENTATION How lonely sits Genie that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she that was great in cyberspace! She that was a princess among the internet services has received her death notice. She weeps bitterly in the night, tears on her cheeks; among all her users she has none to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they have deserted her. Genie has gone into dissolution because of bad management and obsolescence; she seeks now to be an ISP, but finds no customers, IDT has overtaken her, pronouncing her doom. The roads to Genie mourn, for none come to the appointed RTCs; all her topics are desolate, her sysops groan; her customers have been driven away, and she herself suffers bitterly. Her destroyer has become the head, her competitors prosper, because IDT has made her suffer for the multitude of GE's transgressions; her children have gone away, deserted to the foe. From the daughter of GE has departed all her majesty, Her customers have become like harts that find no pasture; they fled without loyalty unto the competitors. Genie remembers in the days of her affliction and bitterness all the precious things that were hers from days of old. When her people fell into the hand of IDT and there were none to help her, the disloyal gloated over her, mocking at her downfall. GE sinned grievously, therefore Genie became obsolete; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; yea, she herself groans, and turns her customers away. Her uncleanness was in her software, she took no thought of her doom; therefore her fall is terrible, she has no comforter. O Lord, behold my affliction, for bad management has triumphed! IDT has stretched out his hands over all her precious posts; yea, she has seen the IDioTs invade her sanctuary, those whom thou shouldst have forbidden to enter thy congregation. All her people groan as they search for posts; they wander the topics for messages to revive their traffic. Look, O Lord, and behold, for she is deserted. "Is it nothing to you, all you who left Genie?" Look and see if there is any sorrow like her sorrow which was brought upon her, For vast as the cybersea is her ruin; who can restore her? The IDioTs have seen for her false and deceptive visions; they have not exposed her iniquity to restore her fortunes, but have seen for her oracles that are false and misleading. All who pass along the way lay scorn on her; they sneer and wag their heads at the daughter of GE; "Is this the BBS which was called the perfection of online service? the joy of cyberspace?" The new management turns against her; they raise rates, they cancel services, they cry, "We have destroyed her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; now we have it; we see it!" IDT has done what he purposed, has carried out his threat; as he ordained long ago, he has demolished without pity; he has made her users lament over her, and exalted the might of her doomsayers. Cry aloud to the Net! O users of Genie! Let tears stream down like a torrent day and night! Give yourself no rest, your eyes no respite! ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 30 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:52 EST I believe I do! ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 31 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:56 EST You do indeed. Awed applause. ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 32 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.DOYLE1 [Noreen] at 20:08 EST ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 33 Thu Dec 30, 1999 G.FEELEY1 [Elasas] at 20:12 EST Noreen got a standing O? Was she in the shower with the hand-held nozzle? ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 34 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 20:14 EST ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 35 Thu Dec 30, 1999 DRIZZAN [gregmce.com] at 20:16 EST Maybe someone else was in the shower on their knees. ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 36 Thu Dec 30, 1999 MIKE.K-MAC [Michael] at 20:17 EST Well, every now and then, something comes along that works better. My 300bps modem still works, but... ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 37 Thu Dec 30, 1999 MIKE.K-MAC [Michael] at 20:22 EST Why stand? I have a friend who made her husband put a 10' hose on her ShowerMassage. ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 38 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 20:27 EST Heck, just the hose might do the trick... ------------ Category 1, Topic 16 Message 39 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 20:29 EST What size nozzle? ------------ ************ Topic 17 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 18:06 EST Sub: A quote Appropos nothing in particular 37 new messages. ************ ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 1 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 18:07 EST But yield who will to their separation My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. For only where love and need are one And work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For heaven and the future's sakes. --Robert Frost, "Two Tramps in Mud Time" ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 2 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 18:09 EST Hmm. Just went to post something, then realized it would be a copyright violation. And I find myself unwilling to do that, even in the End Times. ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 3 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:48 EST Okay, now *that* might be something to be embarrassed about, in case IDT archives things. Posting a copyright violation. OTOH, if this ever gets on the net, they've violated *our* copyright. ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 4 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:13 EST Fair use, fair use. No? ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 5 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:14 EST The one I posted probably. The one I want to post, I doubt it. But if anyone remembers "Patrick's Rune" out of Madeleine L'Engle's A SWIFTLY TILTING PLANET, that's what I was thinking of. ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 6 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:29 EST Smiled Christ -- "Thus do I treat My friends, So must I thus treat you." "No wonder, Lord," sighed Teresa, "No wonder You have so few." --Alfred Barrett ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 7 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:32 EST Janni, I don't remember it, but unless Crystina took it off to college, there's a copy around here someplace and I'll look for it. ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 8 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:32 EST "I just don't know how to write a love letter. What can you say to a girl that shows you really like her?" "How about, 'enclosed please find a cookie?'" -_Peanuts_ ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 9 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:35 EST Okay, here's a L'Engle I can get away with: "It's the fall of the sparrow I care about. But who's the sparrow? We run into problems there, too." - _The Arm of the Starfish_ ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 10 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:40 EST Good one. :) "A mushroom of boiling dust up to 20,000 feet." -Paul W. Tibbet, Jr, pilot of the Enola Gay, describing the drop of an atomic bomb. Never know what you're going to find in Bartlett's. ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 11 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:41 EST And Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. -- A.E. Housman (As found on a random page of Janni's Quote Book) ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 12 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:44 EST My Samuel Johnson teacher quoted that one a lot. ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 13 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:47 EST Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resists. (Plutarch, from *my* book of quotations and I'll swear I opened at random.) We're being dragged the whole way. ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 14 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:48 EST kicking and screaming ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 15 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:50 EST There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest. ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 16 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 19:51 EST If we're playing random quotes... "But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last, she will her own cause right." --Edmund Spencer, "The Fairie Queene" ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 17 Thu Dec 30, 1999 G.FEELEY1 [Elasas] at 20:01 EST If I'm going to quote, I'm going to violate copyright doign it. From the just-arrived issue of the New Yorker, some cartoon captions. "I've done the numbers, and I will marry you." (William Hamilton) "For an extra fifty, I'll let you show me your Palm Pilot." (Alex Gregory) ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 18 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 20:02 EST Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something upon which to rejoice ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 19 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 20:03 EST Other people dreamed of racing-bikes and cameras and guitars, but Anthea dreamed of the wizard's windows. She wanted to get into the wizard's house and look through first one window and then another because she was sure that through one of them she must see the world she really wanted to live in. - Margaret Mahy, "The House of Coloured Windows" ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 20 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 20:13 EST "A four-horse team cannot overtake the tongue." --Confucius. ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 21 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 20:13 EST "Sentimentality is an echo of violence." -- John Campbell ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 22 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 20:15 EST Tell that to Monica, Confucius. ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 23 Thu Dec 30, 1999 G.FEELEY1 [Elasas] at 20:16 EST "A little bit of Monica, in my life . . ." ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 24 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 20:17 EST Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 25 Thu Dec 30, 1999 G.FEELEY1 [Elasas] at 20:23 EST "Here I was, all this time, worrying that maybe I'm a selfish person, and now it turns out I've been suffering from compassion fatigue." (Sipress) "He's been in a marvellous mood ever since he learned one out of every hundred and fifty Americans is in jail!" (Gahan Wilson) ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 26 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 20:24 EST Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. --Edward Abbey ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 27 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 20:28 EST "Better to have faith in something, even though it be the head of a sardine." --Japanese Folk Proverb ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 28 Thu Dec 30, 1999 G.FEELEY1 [Elasas] at 20:31 EST W.C. Fields said something similar. ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 29 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 20:41 EST Dies irae Dies illa Solvet saeclum in favilla Teste David cum Sybilla... ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 30 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 20:45 EST Hello, darkness, my old friend... ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 31 Thu Dec 30, 1999 DRIZZAN [__Darkness__] at 20:47 EST Hi! ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 32 Thu Dec 30, 1999 K.DALKEY at 20:48 EST "The 20th Century is almost over, almost over, almost over. The 20th Century is almost over, all over this world." ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 33 Thu Dec 30, 1999 JOHN.BARNES [John Barnes] at 20:55 EST Jadda. Jadda. Jadda jadda jing jing jing. ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 34 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 21:00 EST Yisgadal v'yiskadash shmay rabo... ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 35 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 21:15 EST Ave, Caesar, nos morituri... ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 36 Thu Dec 30, 1999 S.SHWARTZ [Susan] at 21:34 EST B'olmo d'ivro... ------------ Category 1, Topic 17 Message 37 Thu Dec 30, 1999 PETER.HECK at 23:03 EST Ash nazg durbatuluk, Ash nazg gimbatul. ------------ ************ Topic 18 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 18:10 EST Sub: Using Genie folks for research What the header says 28 new messages. ************ ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 1 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 18:11 EST Anyone know anything about dire wolves? ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 2 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 18:27 EST Big and stupid and died by zillions in the tar pits--they've got a whole wall of skulls in the museum next door. ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 3 Thu Dec 30, 1999 SF-ALIEN at 18:28 EST What, like the ones circling our camp right now? ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 4 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 18:30 EST There is a curious resemblance. Ever read WHITE FANG? ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 5 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 18:48 EST We'll beat them to death with the thigh bones of our predecessors. ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 6 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 18:49 EST Nope, but I always think of Tolkein's Wild Wargs when I read about dire wolves. ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 7 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 18:53 EST We can beat the asses to death with jawbones. ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 8 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:03 EST If dying in the tar pits is a criteria for stupidity, were there any bright animals living in the LA area 10,000 years ago? ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 9 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 19:07 EST The ones they don't find, Janni. '*s ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 10 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:09 EST Let's round up all the IDioTs and see how *they* handle tar pits. ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 11 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:14 EST Oo! The ones they don't find! Another beautiful concept for a story. Did dire wolves have huge teeth? ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 12 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:15 EST I believe so. Even if they had nothing on sabertooths. I love my work. ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 13 Thu Dec 30, 1999 H.TURTLEDOVE [Harry] at 19:16 EST Not sabertooth teeth. Say it 3 times fast. But big, yeah. ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 14 Thu Dec 30, 1999 L.TILTON [Lois] at 19:21 EST Head first. ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 15 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:29 EST Chompers. Janni, what is your work? Writing? ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 16 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:32 EST Or something. ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 17 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:32 EST Actually, right now I'm trying to keep Our Heroes from getting chomped. ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 18 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:33 EST Lovely writing, Nina, for middle grades. Speaking of which, Janni, all of the Phantom Horse books are still in print, aren't they? I was pushing them to an eight-year-old the other day. ;-> ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 19 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:39 EST Katie: Umm, alas, no. Book 1 should still be available. I still have copies of book 2. Book 3... well, anyone with copies of book 3 they don't want should let me know. I'm keeping a list of folks looking for it. ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 20 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:40 EST Phantom Horse books? I must know more. I understand you can't find them new, but maybe in the library. ??? ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 21 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:42 EST You can find book 1 new. The Phantom Rider trilogy: GHOST HORSE, THE HAUNTED TRAIL, and GHOST VISION. ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 22 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:45 EST (taking notes) ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 23 Thu Dec 30, 1999 J.SIMNER [Janni Lee] at 19:47 EST Hey, while we're at it: my new series is called TerraTrek, and will be out sometime in 2001. :-) ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 24 Thu Dec 30, 1999 KATE.DANIEL [Katie] at 19:48 EST I thought they were all still in print. Bummer. Well, I'll pass the word onto her parents. ------------ Category 1, Topic 18 Message 25 Thu Dec 30, 1999 N.HOFFMAN [Nina] at 19:51 EST Good to know, Janni Lee! ------------ Category 1, Topic 18