Date:         Thu, 27 Mar 1997 00:01:50 EST
From: late tink <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: FILLER: Please stop hating me!! i said i was sorry!!!!!!!!

JANE!

slow down.

NO ONE IS HATING YOU!

I haven't even had a chance to read the last 130 plus messages that
have come in, let alone respond to them in any reasonable manner.

your earlier one is one of the ones I put aside to make a really good
response to, because it isn't a matter of "being let back in"--YOU
AREN'T OUTSIDE!

:) I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO TO FIX EVERYTHING!!!

none of us do.  seriously, you don't have to fix everything.

:)    i tried to reach that website you all did for Bill and it had no
:) DNS entry so i couldn't get in. Is there a silent underground
:) conspiracy going on that i am too dim to have noticed over  the past
:) week or so?

okay.  DNS entry not found is computer gobbledegook for "I don't know
how to get to that address"  (DNS is Distributed Name Service).  It
can mean that something is funky in your local network name service,
but more often means there is something wrong in the address-a little
typo will do it!

and I can flat guarantee (as one of the people who runs such services)
that no one on this list could make it reject one person.

there is one thing that I really want to make sure you understand,
though.

when you cut yourself, you aren't cutting just yourself.

when you bleed, it isn't alone.

we all bleed with you.

we all are cut with you.

sorry, Jane, but I don't despise you.

I want you to know just how important you are.  And it takes me time
to say that well, so I haven't responded yet.

In the mean time...could I offer you one of these?

*HUG*

I think I speak for others, too, when I say don't mistake our
slowness for dislike.  Forgive me, Jane, for I am slow...

tink