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   Ardith Hinton to Anton Shepelev:   
      
   AH>>> This apparently simple question has brought all sorts   
   AH>>> of interesting people out of the woodwork.   
      
   AS>> You mean termites, what?!   
      
   AH> Speaking figuratively, I was including various people   
   AH> who don't often say much here but are well worth   
   AH> 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.   
      
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