On Wed, 22 May 1996, wayne d pillion wrote:

Stargazer walks upto the mic and tapps on it.
<tap> <tap> <tap>
Hello, is this thing on?  Is anybody out there?

Yes,  but I am getting a little fustrasted at seeing 4 or 5 messages a day
from people who ask if the list is still running.  The reality of Internet
that a message can take from 10 seconds to months to get from point A to
Point X and then to you (Point 3).  Sometime a server will hold messages
for day's at a time. Could at lease wait a day or two before sending a
test message?

Phoenix Ikki