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From: jhp@apss.ab.ca (Herb Presley, Emergency Planning Officer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: BASIC Programming Group
Keywords: Newsgroup
Message-ID: <1277@apss.apss.ab.ca>
Date: 2 Jun 89 14:47:51 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Alberta Public Safety Services
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	I am interested in hearing from people on the net who may still be
interested in learning BASIC programming.

To Clarify:

1) I am NOT interested in hearing from snotty-nosed elite programming types
   with their remarks, such as "Oh gosh, a dinosaur, someone who's still
   interested in BASIC!" or, "Didn't you know that BASIC programming is only
   used by people under 12 years of age?" or, "Why don't you learn PASCAL or
   COBOL instead?"

2) The version of BASIC you use DOESN'T MATTER.  Contact me anyhow.

3) I don't care about your age.  People under 12 are welcome to contact me as
   well!

4) This request is NOT a commercial sales pitch.  I do not have anything to
   sell, nor do I wish to buy anything.  I am simply an individual interested
   in BASIC programming.

	My intention is to see if there is any interest in setting up either:

    (a) a news group for people interested in BASIC programming, or
    (b) an email network if there are only a few people.

	The purpose of getting together would be to share ideas, programs, talk
about what we're learning, etc.	 

	Please email your responses to me.  I find this news group is very
crowded and hard to read - its almost impossible to find specific articles.  I
think there are now something like 400 articles on it going back to April.  So
if you post your response, it's likely I will never see it!

	Depending on where you are sited, try one of the following addresses:

	1>	jhp@apss.ab.ca
	2>	jhp@apss.ab.ca.uucp
	3> 	alberta!ncc!apss!jhp

	I will post a collective summary of the responses in "comp.sys.ibm.pc"
in about two weeks, and get back to you all.  Please make sure you include a
good email address!

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