the_barbarians_have_invaded (z) (it feels here like blue recently did. i am sad about that.) 071024 ... birdmad (is sometimes a paranoid android) i''l presume that i am the barbarian, but i am also among the "oldest" in terms of my presence here and in blue sometimes i am driven more by compulsion than transcendence i am slave to whichever muses are plucking my strings at any given moment 071024 ... jane it's probably me. sorry. 071024 ... hsg do ur best to increase the quality. i shall do the same. what would u like to see RED be? 071024 ... (z) (what it has always been, more signal than noise.) 071025 ... grendel i am a literate and occasionally articulate barbarian, so, the subjectivity of it all aside, it sort of begs the question: is it really an invasion when the worst of the horde has always been in your midst? at the very least, i am not filling pages and pages and volumes of data with endless repetitions of onomatopoeic noise blathes, i should hope that would count for something. 071025 ... zeke yes. i must confess that i thought it was the advanced wave of just what you have described. please forgive the intrusion. 071026 ... ever dumbening red has never (in the six years i've been around) suffered anything close to the kinds of sustained attacks that blue has. and interestingly, i think almost all of the offenders have known about and dabbled in red, but ultimately left it alone. blue seems to be the beautiful, loud-mouthed whore--irresistable. red the mona lisa, with guards both literal and figurative. 071026 ... grendel Zeke, no worries, take it for granted that your misgivings and good intentions were understood from the outset and any remote semblance of offense was forgiven from the start 071026 ... z you have my gratitude. 071026 what's it to you? who go blather from