Hello.

I was first made aware of the Circumlunar project on solderpunk's SDF
phlog. I was settling in at SDF, so I dragged my feet and didn't
sign up.

My mistake. A few months later I got kicked off SDF for reasons still
not clear to me. Ready to find another pubnix home, I looked to the
Circumlunar space, as I was semi-regularly following the phlogs on
here. Unfortunately, the Zaibatsu had filled up by this
point. Luckily, slugmax was willing to put me up, so here I am.

Having no idea about the whole sundog thing and the backstory
mentioned on the CS gopher page, I've ordered Schismatrix Plus.
Searching for "Bruce Stirling" wasn't quite giving me the results I
was after, but swapping one of the extra i's for an e soon yielded
fruit. It's now on it's way. Never read any of his stuff before - I'm
looking forward to it.

Having been at the Unix coalface for... well, let's just say my
beard's plenty grey - I've been spending most of my recent personal
computing time investigating the IBM mainframe. "A change is as good
as a rest" as they say. As a result of that, I've become involved in a
nascent project to recreate an environment similar to the BITNET and
VNET networks - connecting togther about 10 or so private
'mainframes'. It's extremely early days yet, but I can't help but be
struck by the similarities to CS. But that's the nature of networks in
general, I guess.

I have the germ of an idea about somehow linking this up with CS in
some way. Probably not the whole network, maybe just a single node. Of
course, whether this is even acceptable or desirable is another
question altogether. Seems to me that it's at least feasible though.
No promises, but I'd be interested in hearing opinions both in favour,
and vehemently against.