From: Dan Shoop <shoop@horton.farsef.com>
Subject: What became of shoop@wocket.spcssi.sequor.com
Reply-To: shoop@horton.farsef.com
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 20:40:41 GMT


A hearty net-greetings!

I feel I owe some of you an explaination, especially since I owe some of
you some tapes from some spring trees...

At the beginning of June I lost my job due to a merger. While that wasn't
the end of the world (I got a great "parachute" severance package), it did
mean the end of net access [until now]. Worse than that, since I worked in a
"sensitive" area [systems], when I got notice that was it: hand over card
keys, your accounts have been closed... here's a tape of your effects. That
also meant that I lost all my mail and all records to tape trees and stuff.
That was bad, since I owe some of you some tapes.

The good news was that since I was being paid severance for a couple months,
and the summer came, I got to take advantage of a excellent PAID vacation of
several months, which I spent backpacking in the Adirondacks and had a great
time [no dead content]. 

Now back in June when all this happened, some kind soul, my parent on the
Las Vegas tree, actually CALLED me before I disappeared and sent me some
DAT tapes for a tree that I was on and [I think] posted saying I was off the
net for my leaves to call me. Thanks, I forget who you are, and I owe you
blanks or a trade, I forget which. I got your tapes (3 DATs) while I was
away, my roomate had opened them and threw away the packaging with your name,
I had told him to look out for the tapes, but didn't tell him to look out for
the packaging. While I owe you a big *THANKS*, I do have a small problem:
There's errors in the middle of Help->Slip->Franklin's that sounds bad, so
I'd like to ask you - kind soul that you are - if I could send you the blanks
or trade(s) I owe you _plus_ a blank to re-record that tape. 

Which leads me to the next item:

I *know* I owe a handfull of people some tapes. Aside from that tree, I got
some tapes for other trees: Halloween, and a '71 show off FM, back at the end
of May and owe people tapes. Of course since I don't have my records, I don't
know who you are. Likewise, whoever sent me tapes, I don't know if I got back
to you with blanks or trades.

I feel bad about all this, and hope the few of you who are impacted can
understand. In the long run, everything has worked out well for me personally,
except for any bad karma over tapes. The $$$ from the severance was good, and
I've set myself up as a consultant and am doing better than I was in June,
so from that angle things worked out for the best --Voltaire's Candide and
Dr Pangloss would be pleased :-)

So if you think I owe you tapes, send me a message. Please note that since my
net connection is brand-new, my domain might not be in your server so pay
use the following temporary address for me:

	shoop%horton.farsef.com@uu5.psi.com

So please, if you think I owe you something, let me know. It'll help me sleep
better at nights. Okay, that may be an exageration, but I _will_ feel better
knowing I haven't slighted anyone on the net. Everyone in the Dead community
has always been so great I don't want to spoil anything.

So thanks for understanding...

- dhan



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