Shane B. did it !!

[Net Llama!]

Skippy!  Great that you're back!  Lurking is no reason to abandon us!  We 
need our 'practising geriatric' here.   And anyway, if everyone who lurked 
ubsubbed from the list, there'd be almost no one left, since about 75% of 
the list members are purely lurkers.

On 07/17/03 16:56, Keith Antoine wrote:

> Got a call this afternoon asking whether I was alive or not; as I was unsure 
> at the time I went and looked, sure enough I was there. So Shane asked me why 
> I disappeared, that there were some users that were asking what happened to 
> me ? I was sure that I would not be missed afer mostly lurking.
> 
> Anyway I am flattered that anyone was interested enough to ask where the 
> 'thong' was and was he ok. It was a set of circumstances that took me 
> offline.
> 
> I changed my ISP and in doing so I unsubbed, but I did mail Doug with what I 
> was doing and that maybe it was best if I retired to oblivion. I could not 
> see the point if I was just lurking nowadays and not being able to contribute 
> to the discussions. It has got to the stage were my ability to keep up with 
> the changes in linux deteriorated badly. I am tending to be in kernel 2.2 
> days and I also forget simple Cline commands. As most know I am 70+ and try
> as I might learning is now taking a great deal of effort. Still do builds and 
> installs, but no networking anymore, or complicated stuff.
> 
> I have swapped to mandrake 9.1 and am at least able to keep going here except 
> for the urpmi installs with the usual dependecy pitfalls. I still need to get 
> the dvd to record in this OS, do not bother to watch dvd's on the computer 
> anymore.
> 
> Nuff for now, yes Lonnie I know this should be in General sigh, wink ! Big 
> kiss to Kurt (Still breathing mate?), Shawn Taylor , How's Julia and Madison. 
> Hi agin to all you other 'serfs' especially Pascal if he is still listening 
> ....................
> 
> Oh, yes thanks for going to the trouble Shane. Sheesh now i'll have a big mail 
> box again.
> 
> 


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