laura (06/08/82)
Hmmm. I have replied to several articles in net.misc -- even originated some -- which promoted lively debate by mail over the last couple of weeks. Then a double disaster struck! First of all, decvax curled up and died as far as news/mail was concerned for a week. Second, our magtape sickened and we did not do daily backups. Patience, patience, the story unfolds.... I was away this weekend, and ill last thursday and friday. Last night, I found that I had *104* mail messages in /usr/spool/mail/laura!!! When I had disposed of the local messages, I found that I had a good many messages from one person or another referring to mail which I had never received. There were also requests for mail I thought that I had sent. Obviously, these died at decvax. THE LINE IS OPEN NOW AND I INVITE YOUR WRATH!!! (which means, to those involved in the ongoing "how much government" "woman techies have lost all their femininity" "anarchy is anonymous with bomb-throwing" "marshmallow fluff rots your mind" debates, that I havent curled up and died due to the eloquence of your arguments, nor am I sulking or wasting away due to hurt feelings -- ***i just havent received anything*** since the 20th of May.) Ah, but the other problem --- people who expected a reply from me here I have a confession to make. My brother is in high school. Next year he will be in grade 10 (2nd of 5 years before University) and he is planning on dropping all his science courses (despite being good in science) for english and economics and world government studies. He goes to a terrific school which offers more than basic science II -- there is a computer course, a physics&biology, an astonomy course, as well as one in geology and anthropology. Now, while he seems happy as a clam emmersed up to his ears in politics and economics, I am rather loathe to see him drop all his science courses at the tender age of fourteen. So I gave him the grand tour of U of T's physics and computer science buildings. I logged him in and introduced him to the joys of Stellar Conquest and rogue -- not to mention unix! He was impressed. Not impressed enought to take physics&bio or any other science courses, alas, but rather impressed. He enjoyed how "rmtree mail" deleted the directory he had of mail I had sent him. Alas, he did not keep his mail straight from my mail -- mine went up in a puff of (unix)-wizardly smoke -- much to his chagrin. Which brings me back to the second disaster -- without backups, I lost some mail. So if you are quietly fuming somewhere, waiting for the info you were promised from some Canadian wretch -- utzoo!laura -- I may have lost your request. *please resend* -- great -- now I will have 300 mail messages by the day after tomorrow..... laura decvax!utzoo!laura