Very sorry to hear that Aaron but it seems totally understandable from what you seem to have been going thru. Things certainly do seem to get out of hand sometimes and to think that this really gets portrayed out to the World on the web. (I was quite surprised when I did a search on Calgary Linux and came across a lot of CLUG postings).
Anyways, on behalf of us all, we certainly thank you very much for all the time, effort and dedication. I hope your experience is not a totally negative one and that you will take away some interesting knowledge.
Best wishes!
At 08:07 PM 12/10/2002 -0700, you wrote:
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