[GreenKeys] not many of us left

[Tom Dawson]

49 for a couple more months?  Shoot, I've been 49 for five years...........


Tom
WB3AKD
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gil smith" <gil at baudot.net>
To: "Lee Mushel" <herbert3 at centurytel.net>
Cc: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] not many of us left


> Hi Lee:
>
> Well, as of this morning, there are 359 members on greenkeys.  A few years 
> ago it was under 300.  I used to be able to contact ebay buyers, but they 
> don't allow that anymore (ebay gets suckier every year).  Once was a day 
> when I would see folks bidding on tty gear and send them an invite to 
> greenkeys -- we got quite a few folks that way.  But still, greenkeys is 
> slowly growing.
>
> Getting older, yes -- but hey, I am still 49 for a couple more months! 
> Got a few more decades left (hopefully) to keep tty stuff running.
>
> But let's all remember that greenkeys is a great archive of tty 
> information.  Got an anecdote, tidbit, or how-to-fix-a-machine story? 
> Post it!  We need your expertise.
> To be a bit less-gentle than Lee:  post it before you're dead!  Or before 
> you forget everything.
>
> Sobering stuff Lee.  Guess I should go do something productive.
>
> gil
>
>
> At 09:53 AM 8/14/2008, Lee Mushel wrote:
>>Folks,
>>
>>I would like to gently remind everyone that there just aren't very many of
>>us!   Secondly, we are getting older and thus ever fewer!  I've had to
>>adjust to the reality that probably half of the visitors to my shack have
>>never seen an operating teletype machine!   I'm thinking about leaving the
>>cover off one and hooking it to the foxbox just so that people can say 
>>that
>>they once did see such a machine working!
>>
>>Anyway, I don't think there's anything wrong with the reflector.
>>
>>73
>>
>>Lee    K9WRU
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Randy or Sherry Guttery" <comcents at bellsouth.net>
>>To: "gil smith" <gil at baudot.net>
>>Cc: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
>>Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 11:09 AM
>>Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Test - Is the list working?
>>
>>
>> > gil smith wrote:
>> >
>> > > I have never used digest mode myself -- has anyone else had any 
>> > > problems
>> > > lately?
>> >
>> > Well, yeah - but none that weren't of my own doing (and having nothing
>> > to do with the list) ;-)  Seriously - I was subscribed to the digest at
>> > one time - and at times - by the time I'd finally get one - some
>> > subjects were WAY old and any "goodies" being discussed were (usually)
>> > long gone...
>> >
>> > No more activity than there is - the digest is not (IMHO) a good way to
>> > go for most people.
>> >
>> >
>> > best regards!!!
>> > --
>> > randy guttery
>> >
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