Hi Ditz, I'm not sure how that T got in there. ;) Actually I do, half blind and sausage fingers on a laptop keyboard. I hope this one gets through. Way back in the late eighties I found a local BBS that had a list of portals you could dial into to get access to this thing called the Internet. I dialed in through the University of Colorado. I had to learn some Unix stuff but it was very cool. You could retrieve files and send messages. I heard on a message board about this guy Mike Bowers who had a list talking about spicy foods and growing chilies. I was all for that. The word spread fast and within a few months there were people on the list from all over the world. It was nothing to get 3 or 4 hundred messages a day. Pretty soon the ISPs started popping up and then Eudora and Netscape came along and away we went. Sometimes I miss the days pre AOL. They were fun and mysterious times. I think there was only about 20 web pages on the entire Internet. On or about Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:39:24 -0400, a stampede was started when Ditz hollered: > Hey Paul, your email to which I was replying, probably didn't go to CH list > as intended. Has a typo in list addy, which I learned when I hit Reply to > All -- the CH one bounced back. Durned fumbly fingers, anyway. How come > they don't type what we *think*? > > Below is bounced post I sent to Paul and list: > > Wow! Clinton's first term was 1993, so that would make it > considerably before the first CH message archives. Yeah, I'd say you were an > old-timer, Paul. ;-) You and that Old Guy up in Canada who tells us about > his cooking oncet while. LOL <she runs, she spins, she weaves> <owwww! dang > it> > > A C-64 eh? That must be old, could be a plane, for all I know! Never heard > of it. <grin> Wait, wait .. Incoming memory ... was that a ... Commodore? > > Heck, I'm no spring chick m'self, but I didn't even > get on the internet for first time until 1998, and I was pretty intimidated > for some time. > > I've been on the CH list since 2002 but used different nicknames -- changed > about every time I changed ISPs and addies. By the way, Sandy, I'm the > ChileBuzz on your random list of missing persons. Am guessing the post you > saved was about tuna salad perked up with Mazzetta Oives in Habanero Salsa. > Yum. Maybe. > > What I don't understand is how you guys who have used the same addy online > for years are not BURIED in spam! This gmail account I originally opened to > post to Mac group, is already being spammed away. Drives me nuts. > > Lovely to see the chile-heads a-bee-boppin' again. > > ditz Regards, , Paul Lizardoid, Ldotter, Freeper E-mailaholics International (Everyone is entitled to my opinion!) The Earth is 98% full. Please .ZIP yourself. Created Using PocoMail