Re: XyWriters: XyWWWeb Needs Your Help! Please read...

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from "J. R. Fox"  on Tue, 10 Dec 2002
20:22:32 -0800

Jordan:

> Should I interpret the lack of any response to my reply to mean that you will _not_
> have any use for all that old BBS logfile stuff I kept (TTG, Kisor, Relaynet) . .
> . however edited down and tampered with it may be ?

No! I just didn't see your msg. I thought I replied to everybody... there
were a LOT of responses, whew -- and I'm STILL soliciting everyone to be
forthcoming, if they have anything. Lemme look for your msg... OK, got it.
We should pursue this offlist. But definitely, I'm very very interested. You
have Word Processing BBS (Kisor)? Bob Locher may have some also, Henry is
asking, but no word yet. How about Wicked Scherzo maybe?????? That was *such*
a great place. Jordan, you were at the very tip top of my list to ask
privately, because I know you're a methodical pack rat. You didn't mention TTG
or Kisor in your original post. Are you willing to scrounge around? I'm
willing to pull a 5.25" diskette drive off the shelf. It's incredible fun to
poke around in this old stuff, especially if you were there. I'm simply
stunned that the solutions people came up with back in 1990 are 100% relevant
today, and the general tenor of discussion at such a high level. As Carl
observed, very robust. There were so many experts back then. Where are they
today I wonder? Henry told me that Bob Locher was still XyWriting as recently
as two years ago, and fussing terribly about a job-compelled switch to Word.

The consolation in doing this grunt work is that once it's done, for any given
year or source, it's done: you can put it on a CD and send it up on a
spacecraft.

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Robert Holmgren
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