Sun, 13 Jun 2004 10:15:00 -0400
   Charlie Pearce ([42]cjp from linuxmail.org)

   --- First thing I just want to say, thanks to yourself and the rest of the
   team past and present for producing the great thing that LG is. I've just
   discovered it and am enjoying reading through the archives finding many a
   gem. 

   Thanks, Charlie! I've forwarded your compliments to The Answer Gang; they
   deserve to share in the glory. :)

   Anyway here's my foolish story, feel free to add it to a future issue if you
   wish: 

     [snip] Added to the upcoming issue - we've had enough responses to put one
     out this month. --Ben
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Re: Linux Gazette Redux :)

   Wed, 26 May 2004 13:57:13 +0200
   Huibert Alblas ([43]huibert_alblas from web.de)

   Hello Ben (and the others)! 

   Thanks for your mail, "das hat mich wirklich gefreut" (sorry but I don't
   know how to translate this one to english, maybe Karl Heinz can help?) 

     Halb. Welcome home. :) -- Thomas

     [Ben] Hey, Halb - great to see that my email has dragged you out of
     hiding! :)

     According to [44]http://babelfish.altavista.com it translates as "that
     really made me happy" - which is a very pleasant sentiment indeed. Thank
     you!

     [Sluggo]  That's  the  literal translation, and it works fine. More
     colloquially one might say, "It's a pleasure to hear from you."

     As far as I know, wirklich means 'really' in the sense of 'truly' (not
     falsely), or perhaps 'indeed'. But in sentances like the one above,
     'rally' means 'very much'. It comes out to the same thing, but does it in
     a different way. :)

     'gefreut' also has a sense of rejoicing and perhaps relief. So it's more
     than just 'happy' as in "You gave me a flower and I was happy".

   Haven't heard of you and the gang for a long time either. 

   I was a little bit confused when (over a year ago, as far as I can remember)
   I got a mail from (hmm, forgot his name) claiming he was the editor of the
   LinuxGazette, and that he was breaking up with TAG (or something) 

   Then I stop receiving mails from TAG, so I thought the Project was dead. 

     Never! -- Thomas

     Nope, in fact if anything that's why we split - sure looked like the CMS
     was gonna kill it. -- Heather

   I visited the LinuxGazette site a few times, but didn't realy like it. 

     [Ben] That would have been Phil Hughes. We broke away from SSC - I wrote a
     nice little blurb about it here:

     [45]http://linuxgazette.net/issue96/reborn.html

     The old TAG list got shut down shortly after that; Phil wanted to convert
     the whole site to CMS, which in my opinion would have killed LG (and for
     his "version", it obviously has.)

     Your experience, interestingly enough, represents my exact viewpoint of
     what's happened with many of our readers: those who did not catch news of
     the changeover - and if you, a member of TAG, missed it, what does that
     say about the average reader? - simply decided that the old LG was no
     more. One of the things I'd really like to do is somehow get through to
     those readers wherever possible, and in general get the word out that the
     Linux Gazette is alive, is publishing, and is better than ever.

   Since then a lot has changed in my live, At the time of the TAG breakup I
   was without work, shortly afterwards I got a job offer at the Metro Group
   (one of the worlds largest trading companies) 

   I landet in a Team of 3 people doing Java/Oracle based Enterprise Portal and
   Backend Development, very interseting stuff, but a lot of new stuff to
   learn.

     [Ben] [grin] In my opinion, that's how any job should be. If there's not a
     lot to learn, you're not moving forward. Nobody said that was easy - but
     then nothing worthwhile in life is.

   I  starting to help getting away from usnig winNT based development to
   debian. Opensource is definetly going strong in our litle corner of the
   company, Who knows where it will end. 

   I'm also getting maried next year :-) 

     [Ben] Wow. Felicitations to you and your bride, then. Please be sure to