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To: SI Brad who wrote (3739)	12/7/1998 6:58:00 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Respond to of 32912

<ran a little program> I guessed it was something like that. I remembered where the posts were anyway, it just seemed funny. <It affected anyone who joined prior to 1997. > Alluding to my age is a violation of the Slevin Code of Ethics.

To: SI Brad who wrote (3739)	12/8/1998 8:46:00 PM
From: scaram(o)uche	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32912

Brad: Having just a tad of a disagreement with your very own Mark Johnson. Is there any way to retrieve private messages once the system has dumped them? Are they stored anywhere? Thanks, Rick

To: SI Brad who wrote (3739)	12/12/1998 10:54:00 AM
From: Steve Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32912

Brad, Is there a way to retrieve old Private Messages that have been sent to me? I can only read the last 20-25 messages shown on my screen. steve

To: SI Brad who wrote (3739)	12/13/1998 11:15:00 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 32912

A list of reasons why Santa is a SysAdmin: 1.Santa is bearded, corpulent, and dresses funny. 2.When you ask Santa for something, the odds of receiving what you wanted are infinitesimal. 3.Santa seldom answers your mail. 4.When you ask Santa where he gets all the stuff he's got, he says, "Elves make it for me." 5.Santa doesn't care about your deadlines. 6.Your parents ascribed supernatural powers to Santa, but did all the work themselves. 7.Nobody knows who Santa has to answer to for his actions. 8.Santa laughs entirely too much. 9.Santa thinks nothing of breaking into your $HOME. 10.Only a lunatic says bad things about Santa in his presence. 11.Santa is forced to do all his work when his users are in down time. 12.He's forced to work even on observed holidays. 13.He claims he's unique, but you see people just like him at the mall. 14.Users make an incredible number of unreasonable demands, but in the end, the only thing that really interests them are new toys. 15.Somehow, somewhere, by some unknown process, he found a wife just like him. 16.Where people don't believe in him, inevitably there are other people who do the same job, just with a different title. 17.Users aren't happy enough to see the results of his work. They keep asking perstering questions about how he manages to do it. They can't accept that it's just some sort of "magic". 18.Even the non-religious pray for him to arrive. 19.He's the only one who laughs at his message of the day. 20.He'll never get another job; his resume is too specific to the job he currently has. 21.Some of the users who make requests are kind of sophisticated, but most of them are having a good day when they avoid peeing their pants in his presence. 22.He's forced to crawl into unreasonably small, dirty spaces to do his job... even when he's wearing a nice suit. 23.If his work is really mostly spiritual, the world is a better place because of his existence!!! 24.Santa works at night 25.People expect everything from him, within 24 hours, and at no cost.