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    I have 2 questions:
    
    Where's he going?
    
    Why do we have to do these things so far North?

I have two questions.


	1) Dan, you bastard, why didn't you tell us, so we could wail
	   and gnash our teeth in utter glee?

	2) Why do we have to do these things so FAR NORTH????????


'Saw

    I have three questions:
    
    	1. Who's Dan?
    
    	2. Should we care?
    
    	3. why do we have to do these things so FAR NORTH?????
    

    1. Dan's going to graduate school fulltime (Columbia).
    
    2. Mac, whattya mean north?
    
    I have to drive home from Chelmsford to Hampton. I'm further from
    Chelmsford (Andover) than you are from Hudson.
    
    There's guys from Nashua, Andover and Salem that would like to go.
    
    Mark.

    Sure won't be the same in here without all the anti-ND replies from 
    Dan.  :^(
    

Hey Lufay --

Do me.

Do it on a weekend, and you can do it at the Sawmill.  Ask Kevin what a fun
time that is....8^)


Seriously, I doubt I'll be able to make it up there, but wish Dan luck
for me.

Is this GEEP or is he like leaving DEC totally?


'Saw

PS  Why do we have to do these things so far NORTH?

    
    1) 'Saw,
    
    
    Ya can crash at my place if ya want to!
    
    2) Cain't Dan do a usenet thingie into MrT or Needle and use them as a 
    way to maintain his "presence"?  Ya know with stuff that looks like
    schneider@cuu.gra.edu.nyc?
    
    3) Howcom we gotta do these things so far NORTH???
    
    Keev
    

>    
>    2) Cain't Dan do a usenet thingie into MrT or Needle and use them as a 
>    way to maintain his "presence"?  Ya know with stuff that looks like
>    schneider@cuu.gra.edu.nyc?

Chances are Dan can still get to us via Mail that way.  In fact, if Dan
wanted, he could send me mail and I could post it (totally unadulterated
of course) here in SPORTS.  Still, it wouldn't be the same....
    

	How come we GOTTA do these THINGS so FAR north?
    

    How come ya gotta do them thangs so far EAST???
    
    
    Dan's leaving.  No doubt trying to get a masters in obfuscating,
    dastitical research, and broadcasting (he is going to Columbia, right?)
    
    JD

    Looks like Lufay beat me to it.  Sorry SPORTSters, that's the way it
    goes, and I'll miss the laughs, arguments and friendships from these
    notesfiles.  I doubt there will ever be an adequate replacement for
    sports notes outside of DEC.
    
    Yes, I'm leaving DEC.  GEEP is for Engineers, and I no longer desire to
    be in the technical end of things, scrounging so I can't afford an
    overpriced condominium in Massachesetts.  Actually, that's not why I'm
    leaving.  Rather, I always knew I'd return to school, it's just life at
    DEC had a way of quickly turning from 2 years planned into 7 years of
    reality.
    
    I'll be at Columbia University in New York City.  If any of you come
    down that way on business trips or for any reason, be sure to give me a
    holler.  I'd pass on an address and phone number, but it's such a
    secret that *I* don't even know it yet.  I'm sure if anyone wants to
    reach me, they can get it through Jeff, JoJ or Mark.
    
    Next Friday's my last day, but I really don't know how much I'll be at
    work, so just in case, I wish you all well and a fond farewell.  I hope
    DEC enjoys good times again very soon.
    
    Dan

The top then REAL reasons why Dan is leaving DEC to go to grad school at 
Columbia:

    
10.  Wants to prove his undergrad degree wasn't benefitted by park 
effects.



9.  Wants to be in a school where the student-athletes are really 
student-athletes.



8.  Heard that Columbia girls are easy



7.  thought Columbia was where Ohio State played.  Figured he could make 
catcalls at bob Knight.



6.  Wants to go some place where no one knows who Jeff Reardon is.



5.  Wanted to be where the real action is in playground hoops.



4.  Wants to change name to Biff, date Muffy, and wear cardigans.



3.  Always been jealous that Needle is an Ivy Leaguer.



2.  Started to grow tired of Maynard.



And the Number 1 reason why Dan is leaving DEC to go to Columbia:



1.  The only place he could find that had a worse football team than the 
    JETS  !!!

    11:  Dan's earnings as an engineer are affected by the Schneider
    Scale of Irreversible Decline.
    
    Mark.

Too much, JD!  That's some funny stough.  OK, so Dan's leaving.  Nice
suggestion to have me act as Dan-net and post stuff for him, but I'll wager
that there are more people who would rather never hear from him again and I'll
side with that camp.  Besides, he'll be all over the usenet as soon as he
settles in.

Dan, not going to be at work much?  So who's to know the difference from
before?  I swear sometimes you had a batch job that just randomly entered notes
about park effects and picked a random Red Sox name.  As a matter of fact, even
though he works in my building, I've never actually seen Dan.  He's just a
clever (OK, not so clever) computer simulation written by two frustrated
Columbia grad students.

As for the gathering, I don't even know where Chelmsford is.  It's up north
somewhere, isn't it?  Anyway, I can't make it.  But why don't we have a
gathering for Dan after he has left somewhere around Boston?  That way we could
have fun and not have to worry about Dan being there.

j.

    Needle, you're a scum bucket with that "he won't be around and let's
    parteee after he's gone remark!  Hope ur cluster controller and that
    other weenie stuff transforms to UN*X!!!!!!!
    
    
    
    ;^)
    
    
    Anyway, my FEW (Future Ex-Wife) said it's OK so I'm in.
    (Since I'm coming from MRO4 and will [hopefully] return to Grafton
    after the festivities, anybody (dickstah-MikeC-Mac-?) up for a
    cahpool?)
    
    I had 'nuther (dangerous) thought - if Squawk hasta work Monday,
    anybody think it'd be a neat idea to see the yuppie fern bar and havit
    at his place?  I mean, he's gotta do "it's on me" more than any ol'
    waterin hole and we cud appreciatively show him (w/$$$) how goos a bar
    keep he really is!
    
    I think in these tough times of 0.7% "Good Job, here's your raise", it
    might be close to the LEAST we could do  ;*>  I gotsa penny jar FWIW.
    
    Besides, the fruits of his loins appear to be real ath-e-letes worthy
    (CLANG) uv a extra buck now and then and since this is so, it is our 
    DUTY to expose them to the world of bucks and performance.
    
    (Non-East folks such as Mike H, JD, MrT, BobH, Crook;^), or weirdo's
    like "Conan" are free to send their contributions directly to me.  I'll
    see they are properly transferred or used in an appropriate manner!)
    
    Kev (the LOUIEEE guy)
    
    

    Jeff and JD, good shots!
    
    I hate to see Dan go, but at least we won't have to read his notes IF
    the Yankmees ever win again!  :*)
    
    By the by, what's with this broadcasting at Columbia?  I thought they
    produced Space shuttles and bicycles.
    
    Can't make it, Dan, but I'll NEVER, EVER forget the look on your face
    at Fenway when the scoreboard got screwed up with the Yankee score.  I
    remember you saying, "Dinsmore must be typing in the scores!"  :*)
    
    Good luck, and try, with all your heart, to forgive Bill James, huh?
    
    Lee

    Good luck! Jets sip, Yanks sip more... Hope you got all the Dead tapes
    you wanted...
    
    Congrats.

       I'm gonna try to make it.
       Hey JoJ, make sure you tell /Don and chap about it while they're
    there. They might not make it to work on Maonday to read this note.
    Why do we have to do these things so far East?
                                         Denny

 Kevy if I go we can carpool....I'll let you know monday morning....
 
 If'n I don't see you over the next week Dan, it's been likey really
 peachy kean to meet and make friends with you...See you in March, and
 can you put us up in March???

 mike

Dan, 

All I can say is to always remember that "Bo Don't Know Milli Vanilli"...

Have fun in school and try to play some rugby while you're there.  

Don't do anything foolish, don't take candy from strange men, and
always wear clean underwear in case you get in an accident.


May the road always rise to meet you, may the cows never shit on
your shoes, Happy Chanukah, and may God always palm you...  Or something
like that...


Seriously, BEST O' LUCK Oh Schneid-One...


'Saw

    
    
    	Hasta la bye-bye Dan.  I only got to meet you once.  You
    	remember don't you?  We played flag football against each
    	other out here behind CXO once.  I got to see first hand
    	your coveted wounded duck passing style.  ;^)
    
    	Anyway, I've enjoyed your notes (the ones I could stand to
    	read all the way through :*] )  Good luck.
    
    	Claybone

 Later, Dan.    As one Jersey boy to another, do good and don't let
 the bastards win.
 
 Remember, never make the last out of the inning at third base.
 
 Bob Hunt

    Dan,
    
    why couldn't you have quit a week earlier so we could do this this week
    while I was up here!  Then I'd have gotten to meet you for the first
    and last time.  
    
    Why do we have to do these things so far north?  (That was on behelf of
    me, Hunt, TTom, Ross, Knorr, et.al.)
    
    May there be many Peppers shaking in your future...
    
    	--dan'l

>    (Non-East folks such as Mike H, JD, MrT, BobH, Crook;^), or weirdo's
>    like "Conan" are free to send their contributions directly to me.  I'll
    
    Yeah I have a KJ t-shirt that Dan will just love!

    
    Best of luck Dan-o.  I enjoyed your notes (am I the only one to admit
    this?)  They helped my speed reading a lot.
    
    Imagine that, you'll be a freestyle beer swillin' student.  Who you
    gonna designate to bug the bejeesus outta Slasher now?
    
    Dickstah
    

    Re .15
    
    Watch that weirdo stuff Kev, or I'll be hanging the lemming moniker on
    you for hangin out at the sawmill!
    
    I'll bet you're a_closet Whaler fan as well!
    
    Conan
    

I keep having this vision of the Sportsters descending on Dan on Campus.

We'll have a most triumphant and egregiously excellent Sports GetTogether
at Dan's place, scoping college babes, and helping Dan with his
chemistry homework.....

8^)

    I'm suprised that Dan is still gonna go to Columbia, after the rumors
    I've been hearing. I heard that Lou Holtz was gonna step down and
    take on the challenge of coaching at Columbia. Could you imagine. :*)
    Good luck Dan, I enjoyed competing against you in softball,football
    and N.D. notesfile.
    
                                                       Dan
    

    they play football in South America?

    So Dan's trading in the low salary of an engineer and the high price of
    a MA condo for the no salary of a student and the high price of a NY
    dorm room.

       Yeah, but Mac, he cain go to all the Nets games he wants!
                                   Denny

    
       Good luck Dan.  
    
    						 glen j.
    

    >I no longer desire to be in the technical end of things, scrounging
    >so I won't be able to afford an overpriced condo in Massachusetts.
    
    Oh my GAWD.  No *another* one.  Not another small blow to mainkind!
    Not.. another... M... B... A.
    
    MrT

    I can't take the time to read through all this... Send me mail when you
    have a place and time please...
    
    -Walt
    

       I won't be able to make it tonight. If we git rain like they say and
    if there's a chance the power goes out, I'll have to monitor the rising
    tide in my basement.
                                  Denny

Hell, they should've named this Hurricane Dan instead of Bob....

That way Dan could've gone out with a real good blow job.....8^)


'saw

    What Denny said.
    
    I already sent Dan mail to tell him I cain't make it.  We're still
    doing tree removal from yesterday's storm that passed through the area
    (see news item about tragedy in Stratham, NH...3 miles from here).
    
    We're pretty vulnerable to today's storm along the coast, so I have to
    batten down the hatches.
    
    Mark.

    
    Can we get a rain check on this?  I wanted to make this one...
    
    glenn
    

Good luck Dan, I will miss your ultimate objectivity here in NOTES. 
Actually the real reason Dan is going to Columbia--

It's the only University in the country where he can become a 
walk on starting QB for the football team! 

Stay out of the subway at night! And buy a gun!


Steve

    Did anybody go lasted(tm) night?  Unfortunately, other
    important things happened yesterday prevented my appearing
    at the GR.
    
    Has/is an alternate being/been considered?
    
    Kev
    

    Good luck Dan,
    	Gonna miss yer anti-ND tirades. Who is going to take up the anti
    guantlet now that you're abdicating? However, the rest are all popcorn
    compared to you. I enjoyed(?!?) the opposite viewpoint. Take care.
    
    MikeL
    
    PS. I still have that Lou Holtz autographed picture and copies of the
    last eight ND-USC game tapes if'n ya want 'em. 
    

    I would come to this bash, if it wasn't so FAR NORTH.
    
    JoJ

    Sorry the bash was SO FAR NORTH. Will miss you, Dan. Wish you the best
    of luck. 
    
    And always remember, Johnny Pesky was a better SS than Phil Rizzuto.
    
    Rich
    

    Thanks all for the kind words, for the not-so-kind ones, for the mail,
    for the funny ones, and for the naughty bits.  That's it for
    me...missing it already.
    
    Dan

    >My last SPORTS note {sniff}
    
    Sniff?!  On the white powder already?  Oh, YOU'LL fit in with the
    Wall Street MBA crowd awright.
    
    MrT

For those of you who can't get through the day without tormenting the late Dan
Schneider:

From:	DECWRL::"das19@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu" "Daniel A Schneider"
To:	needle@vaxwrk.dec.com
CC:	das19@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
Subj:	Happy Rosh Hashanah
			.
			.
			.

j.

    Put the same thing in the "To:" field as is in the "From:" field
    in .46.
    
    HTH,
    
    
    - ACC Chris

OK, Hawk, here's the non-weenie guide to harrassing Dan...

First, hit ^Y to get out of NOTES (that is, press the 'CTRL' key and hold it
down whilst simultaneously pushing the 'Y' key).

Next, type 'MAIL'.

A 'MAIL>' prompt will appear.

Type the word 'SEND'.

MAIL will reply with a 'To:' prompt.

At the 'To:' prompt, type DECWRL::"das19@cunixa.cc.comumbia.edu"

MAIL will reply with a 'Subj:' prompt.  Type 'Dan, you're a jerk.'

After that, you're on your own.

Hope this helps.

j.

    
    Monumental mistake on Dan's part in allowing that address to be posted
    publicly in ::SPORTS, I presume.  We can bombard the hell out of him
    (hey, look what happened with this Hawk KOH thing), and I'm sure he's
    too busy studying to reply to each and every one of us in kind... 
    
    ;-)
    
    glenn
    

    Isn't DECPA:: the east coast Internet gateway?  That might be a lot
    faster than DECWRL:: which is in Palo Alto, CA.
    
    Now I can harass him when Phoenix blasts LA again!

Mike,

Either will work.  If you remember Sean Strout, who's now at RIT, I have
two logicals defined for his address, one for DECPA and the other for
DECWRL.


Hawk,

In your login command file, you can do the following:


	DEF THE_SCHNEID_ONE "DECWRL::""das19@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu"""

Then, when sending mail, simply send to THE_SCHNEID_ONE.  
If you set your mail transport to NM% (assuming NMAIL is on your system)
you won't have to wait for the connection to take effect....

'Saw

>>    Isn't DECPA:: the east coast Internet gateway?  That might be a lot
>>    faster than DECWRL:: which is in Palo Alto, CA.


The PA in DECPA stands for Palo Alto.

There is no east coast gateway, although CRL worked for a while.  I find DECPA
to be more accessible than DECWRL.  Either is pretty fast.  Once it gets out of
DEC, it takes a while to get to Dan.  Incoming are much more immediate.

j.