Subj : Re: New Pascal files
To : mark lewis
From : Scott Adams
Date : Sat Oct 21 2006 04:09 am
-=> Quoting mark lewis to Scott Adams <=-
SA> Yeah. I never recall really much moderating or no elections
SA> since I've been in the echo going back to...19..1983?..'84?
SA> Something like that. Before then unsure. I'm sure if enough
SA> folks complain to the guys doing the blatant ads they'd stop
SA> with enough of a voice by the readers.
ml> i don't recall when i first started reading PASCAL but i do remember
ml> that the moderator was a fellow from OZ or NZ... i can't remember his
ml> name but murdock or murdoch is what floats foremost in my forebrain...
ml> i also recall a report a few months after he turned over moderatorship
ml> to the current moderator... that report was about (AH!) duncan's
ml> death... something about him being on an extended trip and being
ml> involved in a car accident that killed him instantly... i'm wanting to
ml> say that the trip was a "tour" of OZ or the US as well as saying that
ml> the accident wasn't his fault... memory is trying to tell me that his
ml> vehicle was hit by someone that ran a redlight or something very
ml> similar to that...
I seem to recall a duncan and an accident but not a murdock.
Maybe ....memories are gray its been 20 odd years :)
Litterally talk to thousands and seen a bunch of messages.
Wow...figure in its hay day...88-94 around 20,000 msgs i
would read in about 20 odd fido echos every 5 days if i
recall. So about 100k a month or 1.2 million a year. Or
about 7.2 million in that period. Plus the decline of
bbses probably 1/3rd 400k i'd say. around 11.6 million
messages I've read in fido as a quick run of the math.
Wow..my head hurts..lots of words...so memories like
this fade and blur :)
SA> So let's call one! Or take over the elist entry :)
ml> ROTFL! seems to me that some might better look to how they came into
ml> their "office" before making waves in other's offices ;)
SA> Yep. I was just starting the revolution. I can hit the Next
SA> key. I personally don't care :) I'm just the brains you guys
SA> are the rebels.
SA> But I'll take the glory and treasure!
ml> hahahahaha!! i hear ya there! sadly, though, i'm not quite the rebel
ml> that i once was 20+ years ago O:)
Yeah that age thing...when we are dustier than our 286 machines
than we need to retire :)
... Do not anger a Bard, for you are silly and would make a funny song.
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