| From: | "Ojaste,James [NCR]" <James.Ojaste@**.GC.CA> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Woohoo! |
| Date: | Fri, 1 May 1998 09:40:30 -0400 |
>> Lady Jestyr wrote:
>> >For those who didn't know, over Easter my boyfriend and I got ripped off
>> >and they stole our computers and modem. I've now managed to borrow
>> >hardware off my friends, so I'm back on line! FINALLY! :)
>>
>> Oooh - three weeks of heavy list traffic and no way to set nomail
>> (well, unless you sweet-talked Adam). That's gonna be a *lot* of
>> mail...
>
>Nup. I'd set NOMAIL cause I was going away for the Easter weekend - I
>was only expecting to be offline for four days, not three weeks!
That was a stroke of luck - so you don't have ~4500 messages waiting.
I'll bet your sysadmin is pleased. :-)
Easter really wasn't a very good time for computers - I fried my
motherboard Good Friday morning and had to suffer through to Saturday
until I could even buy a replacement, take a couple of hours to
install it and get it up, take a few more to try and keep W95 from
adding duplicate device drivers all the time, say screw it and boot
into Linux. I need a new machine. Really! ;-)
>> >Being internet-less for three weeks really sucks!
>>
>> I don't know how you survived. I have a tough time with a full *day*
>> away from my box. A weekend can be painful. At least I'd still have
>> my Pilot. :-)
>
>It was... trying. Very trying. (The only thing that kept me sane was
>re-reading all my books. Twice.)
That'd take me a bit more than 3 weeks... Oh yeah, they took the TV,
too, didn't they? Well, it'd still take me more than 3 weeks.
James Ojaste
