From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Sep 28 09:01:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA10305 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 09:01:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (ppp20.portal.net.au [202.12.71.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA10299 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 09:01:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.smith.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA06626; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 01:28:46 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199709281558.BAA06626@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: mallison@konnections.com cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Argh In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 28 Sep 1997 09:42:57 CST." <342E7B01.5952@konnections.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 01:28:43 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Sounds to me like more smart than lucky. Just goes to show that if you > notify a few people early, you can sometimes get things back before they > disappear for good. Had you waited till wednesday to notify the laptop > folks, they probably wouldn't have been able to help... Hmm. Smarter would have prevented the whole thing IMHO. Anyway, just for amusement value; I got a call this afternoon from the CIB - they have another laptop identical to mine that they just recovered with a pile of stolen goods late last week, and they were wanting my list of Toshiba spare parts dealers so they could ring around and see if it had been reported. I wonder if there's any money in contracting as a finder? 8) mike