Anyone else suffer withdrawals??

(feels like a ghost town around here, btw....)

Hellooooooo~oooooooo echo

Hel-loh-ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Yep, missed the place all right. Buncha good people here!

Man, I was taking slugs outta a rubbing alcohol bottle, trying to feed my jones.

Aaaahhhhhhh.

That's better.

Went directly to "Who's Online," expecting a full house, but obviously the good news has not yet spread! (Or maybe some of us actually have lives.) Won't even mention how many times I checked to see if the site was back. What addiction?

Can't believe the number of dust bunnies under my bed!

Hi, Nancyk! What addiction, indeed, she types with trembling hands? Do you know, though, this actually does calm my mind, esp. if I've had a frazzling day?
I love you people!

What?what?what?it'sback?nowwherewasI?

It's nice to have the board back... Now everyone come back into the wordhouse!

aka the nuthouse.

Oh! the incantations, the burning of sage,the rituals! Blessings on the work of the Webmaster and the Great Wordsmith we are BACK!
I am so happy to have the Board functioning and to be with all of you. Now let us return to the fun of words and the words of fun!!
wow
High Priestess

aka the nuthouse

(H)actually, AnnaS, that WAS my first choice of word

aka the nuthouse

Do we get to choose what kinda' nut we want to be?
I choose Macadamia! (Rare, delicious, expensive) and if you have to ask, you can't afford me, er, I mean them!

Was The Professor and the Madman's Dr. William Minor a macademia nut?

Nah, he never got to Hawaii, Rudyard Kipling on the other hand ....

a macademia nut

The very reason I prefer that pronunciation.

and a 5 minute hiatus in service this morning had me all atwitching again . And the horror of thinking it might just be ME that was missing out...

Rod

I've had a few "this page cannot be displayed" this morning and one strange thingame where a post just refused to post itself. Had to close and re-open!
(leaving now to burn sage and purify the airwaves, hope it does some good and this Post posts!)

That's scarey! An historic, high-profile site like this...what if...no!...don't think! I'm going through AWAD withdrawal already! W..o..r...d...s...where's...my...words?...I GOTTA have a WORD!!! DO YOU HEAR ME????!

(excerpt from a PM sent from home mail during our oblivion)

And there was silly me thinking that it was just the electrons having a hard job on the wet string in Upper Lower Michigan ...

but I haven't had any e-mail subscription summaries for a while - any one else also suffering from this lack?
I do get the email notifications of private posts and replies, it's just the nightly summaries I'm missing.

Rod

it's just the nightly summaries I'm missing.

SUMMARIES ? What sumaries ... am I missing something? ... what is that all about? Something to do with Email? What? What?

In your profile you can subscribe to receive a nightly listing of various topics, which are formatted at about midnight board time and arrive as an e-mail per topic. Because I do my board-surfing at work 9-5 Mon-Fri, UK time (~4-1 board time) I find this a painless way of catching up with the US evening and weekend posts.
But I haven't seen any of the summaries for a while, hence my question.
You can also set your profile to send you an e-mail if you have a private mail on the board and to send an e-mail copy of a reply to your own post. Again, since I have an always open e-mail account this is useful to me. This is still working.

Your mileage may vary.

Rod

I haven't used this summary service. The board server obviously wouldn't have any knowledge about what the discussions are about, so does it just send the first few lines of each post?

I find this service very valuable, however, limited.

I come in the morning and see the (full versions) new postings, and read through all of them. Because they are out of context, and unless ones' memory is conditioned to keep more than a couple dozen conversations going on at once (not me), I'll get an idea of what's new in those threads I'm following closely, anything new and exciting, and those that I'm not following I note to read through the thread (in context) when on line. This limits double downloads and makes for faster catch-up...I mean ketchup... I mean catsup...

Do y'all get e-mail notification when someone responds to your post? I like this, especially since the recent "questions" thread made it almost like a chat room!

EDIT - Anyone who responds to the proceeding post could be responsible for a post operative disorder...