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                    Intelec International E-Mail Network

                        Meet Your New Administrator 
                              By: Dave Calmer
 

  Well according to Cliff's announcement you all know me already <g>, but
  since I know that isn't the case let me talk a little about one of my
  favorite subjects...ME! <g>

  I'm an old timer on Intelec, back when I first joined we could all
  recite the node list from memory and chances are we could name almost
  all of the users <g>. Besides being the editor of this newsletter I have
  been serving the network as a Super Regional since I joined. I have done
  my time as a moderator, I've been handling the Sysops conference for the
  past couple of years, Audio-Video since it was introduced and the Issues
  Debate conference for the last couple of months. Enough of the boring
  network credentials, what about the REAL me?

  Like many of us my job in the real world is what introduced me to
  computers. After getting hooked I discovered the modem world and have
  been roaming the world for the past several years. Over the years I've
  had several `private' BBS systems up and running, mostly for keeping in
  touch with friends and business associates. In 1989 I decided to take a
  stab at the `public' and opened my current system up. The main reason
  for my opening this system was I couldn't find a board in town that I
  liked, they were all just file boards and I already had my fill of
  shareware. I decided to take a chance and introduced network mail to my
  callers when I added Intelec a couple of months after the board opened.

  I am 35 years old and have four wonderful daughters (13, 10, 9 and 6)
  from my first marriage. That one ended about six years ago, with a wife
  and four girls in the house it was either divorce or never use the
  bathroom and phone again <g>. Last New Years Eve I threw caution to the
  wind and got married for the second time, I figure that practice makes
  perfect and I'm bound to get it right sooner or later <g>. Jennie, my
  wife, is currently finishing up school at USC, and the long distance
  relationship has proved to be interesting to say the least <g>. She is
  in her final year though, after graduation she will be returning to the
  area so we can start acting a little more normal.

  You'll all come to find that I'm a natural born smarta**, I try to NEVER
  take things too seriously. I think we're all on Intelec for the same
  thing, to have a little fun and make a few friends in the process. There
  are NO major changes planned for the network as far as philosophy and
  goals are concerned, we've got a good thing going and there's no sense
  in rocking the boat. My background is in sales and management, and my
  management training will surely mean I'll do a few things a little
  different than Cliff did. While the style may turn out to be a bit
  different the results will remain the same, anything and everything I do
  will be done for the best of the network as a whole.



