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- From: brumby@zikzak.apana.org.au (Stephen McNamara)
- Subject: News and storms
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.155814.17151@zikzak.apana.org.au>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:58:14 GMT
- Organization: Zikzak public access UNIX, Melbourne Australia
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- The brumby appears by the bar, looking rather dazed from lack of sleep.
-
- "I hope this post gets out, I've spent the past 5 hours delving into
- the intricacies of C-News and NNTP to try and let news get out of Zikzak,
- as well as in. But you can't mail me here yet, we tried to install a new
- mail program and in retaliation the disk died and deleted the old one
- before we discovered that the new one doesn't work."
-
- The brumby sighs.
-
- "Anyway, I also want to thank those people who mailed me on my
- birthday. I _finally_ got around to answering all my email this evening,
- (yesterday evening?) and after replying to the first one, the network
- locked up. So all of us in that lab sat and admired the wild spring storm
- going on outside and waited for the net to come back up until we realised
- that the noise we could hear was the fire alarm in the next building. The
- one with the machine room. So we wandered over to have a look, and met the
- fire brigade racing in, and someone being chased out who told us that the
- alarm was set off by the water on the floor. The floor that has 415 volt
- cables in it for the Vaxes. Hmmm. I don't know whether Monash is back
- online yet, or whether it will be for some time if that is true. So all my
- email will have to wait until then I suppose."
-
- The brumby blinks and flicks his ears.
-
- "There's no real point to my rambling like this, other than that it's
- 3am (ignore whatever time is on the post, the same disk crash wiped out the
- timezones file) and I feel like posting to something other than a test
- group. And I haven't had the time to post here for a while."
-
- Thebrumby peers back through an X-window to a lounge room that contains
- two sleeping figures, and one typing one. Two terminals sit by the
- fireplace, Zik asleep in a chair in front of one, and the brumby's RL self
- busy typing away at the other. Robyn is curled up on the couch.
-
- "I suppose I should wake people and go home. Zik has just started to
- stir."
-
- "See people later."
-
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