alumni Digest, Vol 39, Issue 5

[Allen Briggs]

Hi Scott!

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 11:14:53PM -0400, S.D. Rhodes wrote:
> attending college and not attending college.  The question is whether
> this will be a) the difference between attending college in North
> Carolina or attending college in another state, and b) making a life
> and career in North Carolina or making a life and career in another
> state.  

FWIW, I ended up settling around Virginia Tech, where I ended up
going to college.  I would likely have ended up in NC if the tuition
grant had been available.  I don't know what else might have gone
differently, of course, but I probably would have stayed in-state
for college at least.  Given my proclivities, I might well have
ended up working on Linux stuff somewhere in or around RTP.  Instead,
I'm living in the mountains of Virginia and working for a company
in southern California.  Not really adding anything to NC economy
except when I visit family.

>  This fifth line is here just to tweak some people's noses. :-)

In the canonical sense, you have no signature.  In the "good old days",
which might be only in my head, a true signature is set apart from the
rest of the message with "-- " on a line by itself.  The netiquette
rules suggested no more than 4 lines following that delimiter and I
think also had snooty things to say about signatures that exceed the
content of messages (or quoted text that exceeds the added thoughts).

-allen ('88)

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