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 :)


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