From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V3 #91 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Monday, April 6 1998 Volume 03 : Number 091 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Alloy: An important announcement. [Paul Baily ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 5 Apr 98 23:22:40 +1000 From: Paul Baily Subject: Alloy: An important announcement. Hi y'all, I wanted you to be the first to know. Okay, I told my bestest buddy Jan first, but you're the next first. I'm so over the moon I'm halfway out of the solar system! How do I put this? Well best just straight out with it. I'm getting *MARRIED*!! Okay, so I'm not really. You have to meet someone first don't you? (Hah! Would that fate were so kind...) But hopefully that got your attention. The rest of this email is far more important than the soap opera that is my little life. :) This small, but tight-knit gathering we call Alloy has been in existence for over two years now. Since it's tentative but optimistic beginning on 2/2/96 2:22:26am (give or take a second :), it's grown to be something special. Something analogous to a quiet bun fu, sorry, fun bar, an island of relative sanity where we can all come to relax and be ourselves in the warm surroundings of very good company. There's no mistaking it: Alloy wouldn't be the place it is without the friendship and support of every one of you. For this I thank you. There's also no mistaking that Alloy would not be in existence today were it not for the generosity of one Jeff Wasilko. He offered Alloy a home at smoe.org, and what's more he offered this home at no charge to me as list owner or any of Alloy's subscribers. If you take a look at a full header of an alloy message you'll see that every time it was sent by jane.smoe.org. Jane*, the machine that handles the bulk of this load, is some seven years old now. If you know anything about the IT industry, you'll know seven years is an eternity in computer terms. [* rather an appropriate name if you're as big a fan of Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game trilogy as I am. (Before you say it Europa, you know I will always remember.)] By now you'll be getting an idea of what I'm driving at. Smoe needs a new machine. Jeff hasn't asked for help on this. As is his altruistic way, he was resigning himself to footing the bill himself. But we, as guests of Smoe, have an opportunity to show him our gratitude for giving us a home. I've just been approached by Mike Connell about this. If you don't know of Mike, he's a list owner of several of our sister lists on Smoe. This includes the Jewel list which singlehandedly funded the first replacement disk where we helped with the second one. Significantly helped, I might add! Mike's asked if he can talk with you about helping Jeff buy a new computer for Smoe's lists. Mike will be posting to the list shortly about how we can help. Please do me proud and show that there really is a spirit here that won't be broken. If that isn't emotional blackmail then I don't know what is. :) Seriously, Mike's on a really good cause here, hear him out, give him a warm welcome, and all the support you can. stay well, Paul. "I don't call it love, waiting for the world to stop." This message powered by Shock off B-Sides and Lost Grooves/Psychedelic Furs. CD decoded by Power Macintosh (there is no substitute), picked up and amplified to obscene volume by NAD, and hurled at Sony MDR-V600 studio monitor headphones. Awesome. ________________________________________________________________________ Paul Baily paulb@thehub.com.au JustSomeGuy http://www.thehub.com.au/~paulb Brisbane tel: +61-7-3857-8048/+61-411-875-009 Australia I try to remember a kiss and I only get sorrow. ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V3 #91 **************************