Tamara, Majordomo is getting creaky in its old age. It still works but
isn't nearly as user-friendly as the newer list software, so I spend
most of my list activity unsnarling people's subscription tangles
(friends who can't subscribe, email addresses that have changed
slightly and can't be unsubscribed, messages that bounce, messages
that don't appear in the archives, etc.).

I joined when my son was about 6 months old. I am very bad at dates
but I remember the year because I made my first lace pillow by
stuffing a discarded PJ sleeve (my husband's) with wool to make a
roller and setting it in a cake pan filled with clean diapers as the
'apron.' I covered the whole thing thing with a cover cloth. It worked
but, boy, was I happy when I eventually got my hands on a polyurethane
foam pillow! So that means I've been on Arachne for about 15 years.

That little boy is now almost 16, plays the electric guitar,
volunteers for ambulance crew (he's taken a first aid course and his
duties are mainly measuring blood pressure, pulse, and filling out
forms when he's out on a call), and is in grade 10 at a boarding
school in Jerusalem (he wanted it, not us!). Right now he has a
short-term job during the Passover vacation, picking up trash at the
zoo.

Avital


On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:31 PM, Tamara P Duvall <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear Majordomo, I've heard about your lace list and would like to join it.
>> Please, add me to the list. My address is... (whatever it was then; not the
>> @rockbridge.net). Sincerely, Tamara P. Duvall
>
> was *not* the way to talk to a computer, however polite it might be in other
> circumstances. He told me what to do and I received acceptance by return
> mail. I stormed my personal Bastille a full month ahead of the official
> date, which made it all that much easier to remember.

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