At 01:24 PM 3/7/98 -0500, you wrote:

Actually, there's one fact that nobody here seems to have addressed.  
Maybe you all aren't aware of the way that alternate timelines work, but 
somehow I doubt it.  The fact is that once you start spreading this 
outsider information around town.  Things are going to start changing to 

Bert mentions this in his "Bubblegum Zone" stories.

Excerpt from Bubblegum Zone Part 7

  "I...I didn't know for sure, at the time," he replied
awkwardly, looking away.  "I...I knew what could possibly
happen, but lately things have not matched up with my
`advanced knowledge', and I...I figured that events were
finally pulling away from what I knew.  I didn't know if
Haynes was working on the AI, and I didn't know where he was
working anyway."  He spread his hands helplessly, a pained
look on his face.  "You told me it would be better to just
leave things alone and not try to act on what I knew of the
possible future, so I did.  I'm sorry."
     "You're not the only one," she sighed, her momentary
anger vanishing.  "I'm sorry, I shouldn't be blaming you.
You did try."
     "Thanks, I think," he said glumly, grabbing his mug and
taking a large slurp.  "I'm kind of relieved about one
thing, actually, despite the circumstances."
     "What's that?"
     "Given what's happened, I can safely say I don't know
anything about the future anymore."  He sighed, suddenly
looking like a huge burden had been lifted from him.  "I
hope you never have to know in advance that something
terrible is going to happen, and you can't intervene.  It's
a horrendous strain having to curb yourself because of it."
     "I suppose I never really thought of that," she
admitted, then looked at him curiously.  "Why didn't you
mention it before?"
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