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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (135164)	5/15/2001 6:04:23 PM
From: tcmay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

I hope it will be mutually useful and fun Tenchusatsu wrote: "Tim, by the way, welcome to the thread, and good response to Pete's points." Thanks. As I said in the message Paul Engel posted for me last week, I actually signed up with SI back around 1996 or so. I didn't use the account for a few years, and when I tried again, SI said I didn't have full posting privileges. So for the past year or so I've mostly just been reading. I got my first Net account, sort of, on the ARPANet, in 1973. Pretty basic in those days, pre TCP/IP, pre e-mail, pre Usenet. 1988 was when I got a commercial ISP account (with Portal, the company that transmogrified into Portal Software). My inclination is NOT to do "one line repartee," so you won't see many simple one-line comments, either as thanks or as put-downs. Most of my articles over the past 12-13 years of heavy posting to mailing lists and Usenet have been essays or mini-essays. I just never got into the "chat" modality. I hope folks find some of what I write useful. Also, I have found the way SI takes the first line and uses it as subject line to be confusing. As a reader, I mean. So, I am trying to add a first line to all of my posts which acts as a traditional subject header. I hope it doesn't conflict too much with your expectations. (The editing box approach also sucks, in this era of lots of screen real estate. But it seems endemic to Web-based chat tools.) --Tim May