
Editorial - Repent!  The Electrons Are Near!
by Dave Bealer

Hi, my name is Dave Rhodes and I'm here to waste your time and disk
space...

If you were reading any of hundreds of conferences around cyberspace
in the past few months a shudder just went down your spine.  Yes, the
loonies and losers of the world are finally finding out about us.  We  
thought we were safe from them here in our silicon mini-towers.  We
were wrong.

At least a few of these dimwits have scraped together the bucks for
a used 286 box (which were being given away with toasters, but people
started to complain) and a 1200 baud modem.  Instead of having to buy
stamps to send their chain letters and pyramid schemes through the
mail, they can now send them out to millions of readers with a few
keypresses.  And they call this progress.

Even better than the greedy loons are the ones who want to tell us
how to live our lives, or inform us that life for the human race is
almost over.  Digital doomsayers, a real advancement.  Gone are the
crudely drawn signboards, replaced with pixels flashing on a million
CRTs around the world.  Hardly a new phenomenon, only now the CRTs
are not TV screens, but terminals and PC monitors.  The end really is
near...for cyberspace as we've known it.  The unwashed masses are on
their way.
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This issue of RAH is a bit of a departure from previous ones.  We're
trying to cut back on the plethora of "MickeySoft is evil" and "I'm a
crazy sysop" articles.  Not that these aren't valid computer humor
genres, it's just that they get a little tedious month after month
after month.  From now on, we're going to try and have a mix of 
topics in each issue of RAH.
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I had planned to publish the first true "sequel" to a previous RAH
article this month.  I've been working a little piece called "Welcome
to the FidoNet Winter Olympics" for a few months now.  The problem
is, I can't seem to get it finished without the inspiration of
watching the real Winter Olympics on television.  Look for the
completed parody in the March issue.                            {RAH}
