Public apology
                                           Tuesday, January 20, 2022

When I first asked for asylum here at the Zaibatsu I promptly set an email
alias up, then redacted a contact details file at my gopher space [1]. All the
usual stuff with new gophers, I guess.

So here I am, 3 and a half years later, wondering how I never got a single
message at this address. Certainly, having a big readership was never
expected but...

As it happens, when I created this alias I also promptly forgot to bind it to
my regular mailbox!

BEHOLD! HERE'S AN IDIOT OF OCEANIC MAGNITUDE!

Now, I got exactly 4 messages in those 3 and 1/2 years, 2 from solderpunk
who were CCd to my regular mailbox.

I'm now replying to the other two messages. God, how will I find the words
to explain this one...

At any rate I ow a public apology to Flatline and <undisclosed-individual>
[FN/1]

Flatline seems to have departed the Zaibatsu for good [2]. I deeply regret
missing the opportunity getting to better know each other. Good speed Jean!

Notes
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[FN/1] Got an email address for <undisclosed-individual> but no circumlunar,
       or elsewhere, handle. I'm not about to publish his address here. If
       you happen to ever have written to me about one of my posts not being
       accessible, you know who you are.

References
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[1] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~andram/contact.txt
[2] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/~Flatline/