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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (49797)	9/24/2000 7:52:22 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 74651

Yeah. OR, I could let YOU control how and when they're sorted (my personal favorite) <g>. I think I'll set up a chron job so that my bookmarks are alphabetically sorted just on Sunday afternoons, like your sister's IE 5.51. <g> -JCJ

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (49797)	9/24/2000 8:46:11 PM
From: JC Jaros	Respond to of 74651

Charles, this talk of control and earlier, bugs becoming features reminds me of when I was part of what retrospectively was a pioneering 'peer to peer' file exchange thing (and this is on topic because we were using QuickBasic). Anyway, working on the BBS to end all BBSs in 1990 or so, we were working on this concept of attached files to email. It went flawlessly except for one small problem; the files being sent would actually LEAVE the HD they were being sent from. I remember discovering this and discussing it in chat mode, hanging onto the bug conceptually together trying to somehow work it into a 'feature'. It was a long pause, and it ended up with a "nope! gotta fix that!", but somehow it turned into the concept of networked file databases. We did that and I always thought there was great possibilities with it (networked libraries), but it didn't snatch people's imagination like I thought it would. --- NOW, with peer to peer over the free 'backbone' and bigger bandwidth, it's 'Napster' and the last great hope for the PC. Go figure. <g> -JCJ ---Edit: And we had ANSI color! <g>