<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <font face="Arial">Joe, I am sorry to have put you to sleep if you did not want to go to sleep.  But it's only fair to Alan Gilreath to point out that I am the author of what you pasted, not Alan, so I am to blame for your somnolent condition, not he.<br> <br> Best regards,<br> <br> David Boyce<br> <blockquote type="cite"> <div>Allan said: </div> <div> </div> <div>"I rather liked being able to</div> <div><font size="+0">>open my email, quickly scan the new stuff, delete or read at will and move</font></div> <div><font size="+0">>on. What looks like progress is not always progress.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font size="+0">Yes, absolutely agree.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font size="+0">There is, i think, the aspect of the "paradigm" or "model" of our</font></div> <div><font size="+0">discussion, too.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font size="+0">The email mailing list is always CURRENT. It is the conversation going on</font></div> <div><font size="+0">in the room at any one time. In a real room full of people, we can come</font></div> <div><font size="+0">in, and join in the discussion of any little group of persons that sounds</font></div> <div><font size="+0">interesting to us. For a time, we might leave the room, closing the door</font></div> <div><font size="+0">behind us. But then we an come back in and rejoin, with a quick listen to</font></div> <div><font size="+0">everything that's going on, before homing in our our preferred</font></div> <div><font size="+0">conversation.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font size="+0">This list is like a little community with conversation always going on. We</font></div> <div><font size="+0">might leave the room by not contributing or reading, for a while, because</font></div> <div><font size="+0">of holidays or family circumstances or whatever, but we can come back into</font></div> <div><font size="+0">the room and quickly see what current conversation is going on.</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font size="+0">It feels current, and lively, and like a community. What goes around</font></div> <div><font size="+0">comes around, and discussions and topics do get re-visited, and questions</font></div> <div><font size="+0">that were answered four years ago, asked again. But that's probably OK,</font></div> <div><font size="+0">in the main......Blah, Blah, Blah, ad nauseum!!!</font></div> <div> </div> <div><font size="3">Allan, </font></div> <div><font size="3">I fell asleep after the 4th paragraph! Much of what you had to say, is of some consequence. However, the political hyperboleB.S. is not! Let's keep this to the facts at hand, please. My question is this: Do you, (we), have a Backout Plan?...or any Alternate Plan????  If not, Why Not?</font></div> <div><font size="3">All this gas passing is getting real tedious.. Please, just fix it.. What am I saying?!!! Just leave it the hell alone, because, in my opinion, it doesn't need "fixing"!</font></div> <div><font size="3">Just my $ .02 + S&H</font></div> <div><font size="3">Joe</font></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div>Joe Garrett, R.P.T.</div> <div>Captain of the Tool Police</div> <div>Squares R I</div> </blockquote> <br> </font> </body> </html>