Hi, Anton! Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

This apparently simple question has brought all sorts
of interesting people out of the woodwork.

You mean termites, what?!

Speaking figuratively, I was including various people
who don't often say much here but are well worth
listening to.... :-)

Yes, I understood you, and made a feeble attempt at a
lowly joke prompted and insufficiently justified by an
implicit and unnoticed metaphor of FidoNet as an old,
desolate, and decaying wooden building, whose last
surviving inhabitants have retreated behind &c, &c.

I hadn't thought of that, but I have heard it said WRT the Biblical assertion "the meek shall inherit the earth" that cockroaches may outlive human beings for quite awhile if both are exposed to nuclear radiation... [wry grin].




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