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Hi Mike,

 MP> > I'm sure he thought it was also. IIRC, he was either on the echo
 MP> when I > joined in late January, 1994 or joined shortly afterwards.
 MP> There isn't > nearly the traffic here that there was back then, a
 MP> number of folks have > passed away and a lot more quit the echo for
 MP> the internet. It was always > fun when we had the chance to meet other
 MP> members--get to put faces

 MP> IIRC, we lost a few when "Doc" threatened to take his system down.
 MP> Dale and I worked to get a user or two to start using my system
 MP> instead.  Dave stuck around, but another one or two tried it a few
 MP> times then stopped.

We've tried to stay with one source of getting mail; IIRC, we've had
maybe 3 or 4 places we've pointed off of over the years. We've had some
others as back ups, used Dale for a while after Katrina knocked Marc
Lewis for a loop. He got back on his feet and we went back to pointing
off of him, do so to this day.


 MP> I have heard about the picnics.  Sounds like there used to be a fairly
 MP> good crowd here.  Still more discussion than many other places on the
 MP> BBS networks.  ;)

The first picnic we went to in 2007 hosted by the Shipps had a pretty
good turn out, second one in 2008 hosted by Janis had maybe about half
that number. We had to skip the 2009 one, then xxCarol had a small
gathering in 2010 that we attended. We got to a few more over the next
few years, hosted what has been the last one in 2019. Michal, Nancy,
Dale & Gail and Mark Lewis all enjoyed a good time around our kitchen
table. Haven't heard from Mark in some time and know that Michael, Nancy
& Dale are gone, don't know how Gail is doing.

It was fun getting together with the various echo members but the one on
one time we had to share with some of them was extra special. We like to
go to Taste of Japan in West Henrietta; Nancy introduced us to that
place. Last year we were in the area; the restaurant Steve's sibllings
wanted to go to was closed so we suggested ToJ. I think some of his
siblings/spouses made plans to go back another time. (G)

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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