Date:         Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:54:05 -0500
Reply-To:     Maureen Stretch <mstretch@SPRINTMAIL.COM>
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From:         Maureen Stretch <mstretch@SPRINTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: all good things must end some day ...
Comments: To: Joel Walker <JWALKER@UA1VM.UA.EDU>
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Well, at least you're not leaving the list even if the Statz will be
progress-impaired.  It is tough enough to contemplate life without the
Statz, but much worse to think you wouldn't be a contributor.  :(

In case you need inspiration for re-writing the scripts for the Statz,
remember the old Y2k programmer's proverb "A program a day keeps the
millenium away."
And its corollary: "we don't need no stinkin' 4-digit date field."  :)

Will the next millenium have any meaning without the weekly Statz? I
don't think so. :)

Thankz for the Statz so far, in any case.




>... autumn leaves must fall. etc.
>
>well, the powers-that-be have decreed that my email address (above) will
>disappear from the planet tonight. :( so anybody that has that address
>in their web pages, address books, toilet walls or whatever, might as
>well change it now, while you're thinking about it.
>
>i can be reached at   jwalker@bama.ua.edu
>a new super-whoopie unix box with basically shit for mail programs and
>text editors. :(
>
>i can also be reached at jwalker@tusc.net  ... a commercial isp.
>
>the whole point of this is that the Weakly Statz will cease ... the new
>box doesn't have the same software as the old one (surprise!!!) and i don't
>know how long it'll take me to convert the "programs" (really just some
>REXX scripts/execs) to run in fortran on the new machine. :(
>
>i'll still be around, but the old familiar ua1vm.ua.edu will be gone. and
>i ain't crazy about this new crap. seems to me to be several steps backwards
>in user-friendliness and usability ... i always thought computers were
>supposed to do the work. ;)
>
>unca joel
>


Maureen Stretch
Natick, Mass.
91 Vanagon GL Westy "Johann"