In a message dated 97-11-06 18:25:59 EST, [log in to unmask] writes: > > Archived, huh? That thought perhaps casts a pall on any free-range > discussions . . . Free-range-with-archive perhaps is not for chickens or > those with beefs. On their way to the Willie's Toilet Paper Imbroglio WTPI (use your secret decoder ring) in Farafield, MD, outside the log cabin laundromat, nextdoor to the Chunk'a Chew Restaurant, chomping down on another chicken weenie, Gabriel said, "Wheres the beef?" Altuna, lapping another black'n tan, seemed to echoe to echoe his message. Etidorpha held up the map of West Virginia and said, "Gab, we is lost, terrible lost. How will they finds us in the millenium?" Dave Lardo, son of Rusty Lardo, sat on the bus and idly twiddled his silver nose ring while blowing a dolomitic luddy. Kersplaat! it went against the windshield. The archive comes with the list, but it can be locked from public eyes, for our eyes only. We should discuss this. If it will really inhibit discourse then I need advice. I see that it will stop us from getting nasty, indecent, sexually implicit, morbid, or illegal. It will also leave a record, sort of like the loonies preservation diary for the year 2110. As well, when we are serious, there will be a record of the serious. If your hard drive crashes you can get the archive back. I meant to change the _free range_ terminology. Possibly PRESERVATION PLAY PEN (PPP) with journalistic photo groupies (PPP.jpg) watching would be more accurate. What BP will do is allow us to be noisy without getting shot at from a majority of lurkers on PL. Already some 290 people on PL are potentially saving every message we send (Yeah, right.). Firearms could have a negative impact on immediate careers. Like what happened to Gab & Eti on PL. I was not really intending we start a political revolution or write tawdry imitations of Henry Miller on steroids. I would also hope we would keep our defiant vigilance against Joe McCarthy. There is an SJU listowners list and if anyone subscribing to BP wants to go nuts with the delete key I'll show you the way. These types of security discussions go on there at a frantic pace. I'm now spending more time deleting that list then I am reading BP or PL. It is having a strange effect on my marriage. While I lay downstairs on the couch responding to this message my wife is upstairs writing more messages for me to respond to. I guess I don't want anyone to see this after all. Help! I'm going nuts! Oh, sorry, don't read that. BP is also available in digest form, which I think means you could accumulate a months worth of BP before it is sent to you. Imagine that, getting a months worth of preservation technology in one evening. ARE YOU READY! HERE IT COMES! skdjgqwelirjgbwriujg;e. This is somehow tied into the archive function. The breastbone is connected to the thorax, the thorax is connected to the doo da... diddle all day. Telepathic chickens leave no trace. ][<en Follett