-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 02-Apr-2015 01:36 <=-   
      
    DAG> Thank you for catching me up with the repost on here.  Not sure how   
    DAG> I missed this one...   
      
   Other than getting behind, and/or not checking DADS...?   ;)  Kidding   
   aside, hopefully it had actually made it to you... there is always that   
   possibility, that it didn't.     
       
    NB>> I've never really seen the point of using the alias... unless one was   
    NB>> thinking it would shield some bogus persona...  But then I've almost   
    NB>> always been posting in echos where one's real name was important, like   
    NB>> genealogy, where the whole point was to connect with real people who   
    NB>> might be your distant cousins, working on the same ancestral lines as   
    NB>> you are...  ;)   And it's better to say only things you don't mind being   
    NB>> remembered, whether in face-to-face or in some electronic media... or   
    NB>> even old fashioned snail mail..  :)   Of course, since I'm in an   
    NB>> environment where sometimes people are indeed using aliases (some areas   
    NB>> more than others), I've also honed some skills in figuring out who was   
    NB>> who anyway...  :)   
    DAG> Well when I was younger for a little while, when I first got into   
    DAG> things in my early teens, I thought that maybe it was a shield.  Like   
    DAG> I've alluded to before, I had a little naivety on my side.  When that   
      
   Also, the aliases were definitely more part of the teen scene... and in   
   certain networks...  I just never bothered, except in one local message   
   area that was somewhat a role-playing area... taking on personas to go   
   with the theme of the bbs... :)   
      
    DAG> started to crumble, it was more like a badge of honor..  I'd been a   
    DAG> [very briefly] published hacker for a bit, and I'd gained a little bit   
    DAG> of repute with some of the alias-only BBS communities that I'd been a   
    DAG> member of.  It was the fantasy of being an alias-known hacker that kept   
    DAG> me going in it for so long.  Not sure why I even still really have it,   
    DAG> now, but I don't really bother to keep it separate... Except for a   
    DAG> limited extent against my professional persona...  Though anybody who   
    DAG> knows enough to delve into fido and the other nets would learn right   
    DAG> quick where the pair-up is at.   
      
   Probably.  :)   
      
    DAG> I've never been too terribly good at matching text styles to   
    DAG> posters, at least when they're trying to be dubious about it.  Never   
    DAG> been looking in networks where I was looking for IRL people, either.  I   
    DAG> guess I've always thought (and found) that the aliased people I knew   
    DAG> would give me their names one day if they decided I was decent enough   
    DAG> to meet up.  Lo and behold I have found quite a few that way, and some   
    DAG> of them have, indeed, become my best friends and a few that've gone   
    DAG> above and beyond have helped me in some of the most desperate stretches   
    DAG> of my life before.    
      
   Aliases or not, the bbs community has indeed been just that, a   
   community... and I've made fast friends over the years, too... both   
   locally and more broadly..  :)   
      
    NB>> If you do check out the cooking echos (both Fidonet), be sure to stick   
    NB>> around for a while to get answers for your questions... I've seen too   
    NB>> many dip a toe in and not stay long enough to see that people have   
    NB>> answered them... it might take a few days, like other Fido echos... ;)   
    NB>> But you can ask for specific types of recipes... and expect that you may   
    NB>> well be inundated, so be prepared to capture them for use later... :)   
    DAG> Oh yeah I understand the traffic flow with the nets these days.  ;)    
    DAG> I haven't posted much of anything yet in there, but I will as soon as   
    DAG> the kitchen is clean and I've got some time to think something through.   
      
   No problem with just jumping into conversations there, either...    
      
    DAG> I guess I've got plenty to write about (apart from the actual   
    DAG> trademarked recipies) working at the place that I'm at right now, if   
    DAG> nothing else.    
      
   A staff's eye view of a restaurant, for one thing...  ;)   
      
    NB>> The subjects there are quite diverse... from Old Time Radio (OTR) to   
    NB>> trains (model and actual), to what things were like when we were growing   
    NB>> up, to ham radio, to weather, and back and forth and all around again...   
    NB>> some health issues, some small talk... It's like sitting around the old   
    NB>> pot-bellied stove on our cracker barrels... ;)  And cooking is like   
    NB>> pulling up a chair to the kitchen table to talk about food and cooking   
    NB>> and all...  ;)   
    DAG> I've noticed that.  I very much like it.  :)  Kind of makes me jones   
    DAG> a bit for some campfire time.  That's coming up very soon here, though.   
    DAG> I hope to have a trip to the trees under my belt before April is   
    DAG> through here.    
      
   At least your weather probably will cooperate for that... ;)   
      
    NB>> I don't remember seeing you there (certainly not recently)... maybe it   
    NB>> was a weather echo for one of the other nets...?  I was only mentioning   
    NB>> Fidonet echos... since those are the ones I know the best.  Dovenet I   
    NB>> lurked in from time to time in the past, but haven't even done that   
    NB>> recently at all... One of the bbses I use regularly happens to have a   
    NB>> few nets available, and I've been lurking in the general chat echoes for   
    NB>> those, just to get an idea of what they are like, but haven't seen any   
    NB>> reason to join in...   
    DAG> You know now that I think about it I think that solar stuff was   
    DAG> posted in BAMA or Fringe Theory talk or whatever it's called.  I've   
    DAG> posted some solar stuff in the HAM radio echoes, too, where the solar   
    DAG> weather updates go, but I've not received a whole lot of talk back on   
    DAG> those areas yet.  I lurk in many areas where I'll jump in if given an   
    DAG> appropriate opportunity.  ;)    
      
   Ah... those are areas I've not been hanging around in... :)   
      
    NB>> I moved the rest of the message to a new one, as this was getting   
    NB>> pretty large...  ;)   
    DAG> Gotcha.  This one turned out to be the perfect size for me to   
    DAG> respond to quick before I need to be in the shower and off to work.    
    DAG> More will follow.  :) Best wishes!   
      
   Hopefully by now you have received that second message... I did try yet   
   again, and it seems to have been making it around, so hopefully it will   
   have reached you.  :)   
      
   ttyl          neb   
      
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