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|    August Abolins to Ed Vance    |
|    "Be careful what you write..    |
|    11 Mar 24 22:33:00    |
      MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet 12574b68       REPLY: 3710.klatsch@1:2320/105 2a54f653       PID: OpenXP/5.0.58 (Win32)       CHRS: ASCII 1       TZUTC: -0400       Hello Ed Vance!              ** On Monday 11.03.24 - 20:37, Ed Vance wrote to me:               EV> August, It looked like I didn't recall writing messages in        EV> Coffee Katsch before.              I can't prove it, but I think you have popped in here before,        years ago.                      EV> I have problems with Short Term memory and now there's        EV> problems of Long Term stuff              Don't worry about it. We tend to remember only what's important        to us.                      EV> I remember reading "Be careful what you write on the        EV> Internet because it will always be available for others to        EV> read years later.              That is so true. But fidonet echoes are quite public too, even        to the casual non-BBS member. Early in the game, echomail was        restricted within the bbs community and often sysops would only        allow reading an echo if you were a registered user of their        BBS. But now, many BBS echo bases are fully viewable and        searchable via internet.              I would have preferred a non-google-scrapable fidonet. But the        cat is long out of the bag so to speak.              --         ../|ug              --- OpenXP 5.0.58        * Origin: Mobile? COFFEE_KLATSCH = https://tinyurl.com/y56r9f2o (2:221/1.58)       SEEN-BY: 10/0 1 15/0 90/1 102/401 103/1 705 105/81 106/201 128/260       SEEN-BY: 129/305 135/225 153/7715 154/10 203/0 214/22 218/0 1 215       SEEN-BY: 218/601 700 720 810 840 850 860 870 880 930 940 221/1 6 360       SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 229/110 112 113 206 307 317 400 426 428 470       SEEN-BY: 229/664 700 230/0 240/1120 266/512 280/464 5003 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 291/111 292/854 301/1 113 812 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45       SEEN-BY: 423/81 460/58 712/848 5020/1042 5075/35       PATH: 221/1 301/1 218/700 229/426           |
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