Understood. My it's suddenly quiet in here....
I can't imagine the effort it takes to keep the list going. Many thanks and
hats off to you, James and Dale. To have to deal with this aggravation
during the same week that you realized you were in the process of getting
ripped-off must be an extra bummer.
Post a snail mail address please, Dale. We would all like to send gifts of
thanks. Isn't that right everyone? (no anthrax jokes, please!)

BTW, I am not related to either Dale or James...

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: pic microcontroller discussion list
[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of James Newton. Admin 3
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 10:16 AM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: [ADMIN]: I'm not REALLY a jerk (was Re: [PIC]:Hamming codes)
Importance: High


Mr. Kelly, (and other list members) after reading all of the below, do you
now understand what happened and why? Do you see the Dale was doing his job
and that you have been placed in a bad position due to the incompetence of
your ISP and NOT by Dale or any other member of the PICList?

If you don't understand this, please explain why and I will try to explain
it again.

BTW: I never got the email you apparently sent to me (the one that started
"It's with GREAT DISMAY"...) Apparently your ISP ate it.

I would personally recommend getting a free email account with Yahoo or
hotmail or whatever. They do know how to run an email server.

As a matter of fact, Dale is working on sending me a *nix box that I will
pay hosting fees to connect to the internet and I hope to be able to use it
to host email for people who are PICList members. You might be able to use
that box.

Finally, We are VERY indebted to Dale for putting up with a lot of pressure
from MIT and their list server admins regarding the volume of deliver errors
caused by people with ISPs like yours which has enabled us to keep the list
running. They feel that we had too many errors and were going to close the
PICList as a result. Let me say that again: The PICList exists today because
Dale spend a butt load of his personal time with NO 'efing thanks from
anyone doing exactly what he did to your account.

Hello? Is anyone hearing that? The PICList almost got shut off and Dale
saved it. Period. I should have said something about that to the list much
earlier. Dale deserves all our gratitude. Tell him so.

I want to make this a public statement because the same thing may happen to
other list members as a result of a mess up at their ISP. If it does, yell
at your ISP, not at Dale.

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