[email removed] writes:
> It also made me sad. I've been on this list a long time (how many others
> remember 3 digit message numbers?). My rates of interaction have varried
I created the message numbers. :-) I agree with your disappointment in
the alienation of the likes of metlay, Rob Dean, even Chuck Gannon. Even
Scott Kellogg is quiescent lately (although he's got quite a armful to
keep him occupied in his non-Traveller life right now :-).
>From my own perspective, I enjoy the list (vicariously) by watching each
person discuss and share their point of view in their own inimicable
style. Losing the old gaurd is not unlike hearing of the extinction of a
once-proud species -- Passenger Pigeon, Lebanese Cedar, even the proud
Dodo (end of the line for some of the terror bird genes). In the end,
the diversity is reduced and the fun less. That familiar flash of color
in the tree tops, or the odd squawk and squabble in the underbrush, is
conspicuous in its absence.
> Creak, creak, creak (back into my closet)
On a more positive note, the TML is busier now in message volume than
ever before, and the quality is as high as its ever been. I would like
to thank Roger, David, Andy, and many others lately for their leadership
and contribution.
James
Where have all the old gaurd gone?
Long time passing.
Where have all the old gaurd gone?
Long time ago.
Where have all the old gaurd gone?
Gone to closets, every one.
When will they ever learn,
When will they ever learn.
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