Adieu!

The cyber-highway beckons. I can sincerely say I've enjoyed it here. It really was quite an experience through the rollover. I've benefited and relished all the relationships- the helpful as well the cantankerous. Its time to move on. I want to thank all you compadres and the people like Diane, Ed Y. and Phil Greenspun. I truely think its been a groundbreaking, profound experience. TB2000 taught me the value of cyber-communities. Now its time for me to go out and do something with what I've learned. You know where you can find me. I'd like to focus my attention there as well as in a few oil market related e-commerce directions. (hint:The next time you want to just secure oil values without actually filling the 5 gallon containers I hope you'll be thinking e-barrel). Friedrich Hayek postulated about the denationalization of money. Although he didn't live to see it, I think the Internet is going to bring it about. The concept is ripe. Its time to plant the seed.

Ed Y also invited me to register for his Humpty Dumpty at E-Group. I think highly of Ed so I'll prob do so and post there. So I'm sure I'll run into you TBers down the road.

I'll depart with a quote that I stole from one of Ed's forums:

There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try and hold onto the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart and will suffer greatly.

Know the river has a destination.

The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open and our heads above the water. And I say- see who is there with you and celebrate.

~Plains Indian quote of unknown origin

You TBers have been with me and ithas been a great celebration.

-- Downstreamer (downstream@bigfoot.com), January 26, 2000

Answers

Fin d me here But abrasives, please don't click here. Everyone else welcome.

-- Downstreamer (downstream@bigfoot.com), January 26, 2000.

In case some here don't know where to find Downstreamer he will be here: < A HREF="http://pub3.ezboard.com/fdownstreamventurespetroleummarkets.html ">Downstreamer Petroleum Board

This site has a tutorial that I plan to study soon. It is gaining a reputation as one of the best web sites for OIL related news you can use.

Downstreamer;

Your petroboard is a very useful tool. Im sure you will see a trend of increased hit counts. Good luck!

Best wishes and not goodbye - we'll 'see' you later.

-- Bill P (porterwn@one.net), January 26, 2000.

Downstreamer,

Thanks for your many contributions, both here and there!

Be well!

Jerry

P.S. Fritz Hayek was further ahead of his time in some ways than he was in others. :-)

-- Jerry B (skeptic76@erols.com), January 26, 2000.

Happy cybertrails to you Downstreamer!

Go forth and carry your Y2K Lessons Learned into the next adventure. When you "go with the flow," eventually you'll arrive... somewhere... "unexpected."

Just remember... Shift Happens.

*Grin*

Blessings,

Diane, one of many eCommunity CyberNauts

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), January 26, 2000.

Downstreamer, thanks for all the info . . . but I can't possibly understand saying, "Sayranora" (sp?) before the first month-end. Did you not understand Y2K?

The embeddeds were always the wild-card (making up approx. 5% of the US$6000 BILLION spent on remediation/replacement/boondogle). The other 95% hasn't even benn tested yet.

Good luck & God Bless!

-- Paranoia Will (Destroy_Y@BlackCopters.com), January 26, 2000.

Downstreamer,

Best wishes to you! Thank you for your input into this forum.

BTW great site sir.

=)

-- Dee (T1Colt556@aol.com), January 26, 2000.

Aw geeze! Another of my favorites.

-- Carlos (riffraff1@cybertime.net), January 26, 2000.

This board, and many of us, have gained quite a bit through your sharing. I hope that we've learned not only through what you taught, but how you taught. God Bless.

-- tim phronesia (phronesia@webtv.net), January 26, 2000.

You did create a great new forum for oil issues. And your contributions here were appreciated by many. We'll stay in touch, I'm sure.

-- Dog Gone (dawgawn@yahoo.com), January 27, 2000.

You have been a powerful asset to this forum. Don't be a stranger, OK?

Good Luck.

-- Irving (irvingf@myremarq.com), January 27, 2000.

Downstreamer-- I have appreciated your posts here and also on the petro forum-- See you there! Good luck in your future endeavors.

-- dory (crtwheel@eburg.com), January 27, 2000.

You will be missed here. The Petro Board is great! Aloha!

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 27, 2000.

Downstreamer,

Can the river splinter? Maybe, if it is ice. The thousand cuts continue. Will miss you, as this cyber-community winters its loss of of regular, insightful friends.

To this forum, you contributed more than the sum of yourself.

-- Normally (Oxsys@aol.com), January 27, 2000.

Downstreamer.....Thanks for all your valuable input.... Your petro-board is a great one i check there quite often.

-- kevin (innxxs@yahoo.com), January 27, 2000.

Downstreamer, You have been one of the big reasons I look forward to visiting TB2K. Your informative and valuable posts will be missed here.

-- Shoo (flyonthewalls@yahoo.com), January 27, 2000.

Downstreamer,

I've really appreciated your valuable input, and I'll miss your presence. I bookmarked your petro forum -- maybe I'll see ya there!

Good luck to you and your family, Downstreamer.

-- eve (123@4567.com), January 27, 2000.

Sorry to see you go, Downstreamer. Because of the massive snowstorm in eastern NC, I've been switched from reporting crime to erporting traffic and road conditions and it has caused me to ponder even more our reliance on cheap oil. It's not the weather or the state of the highways that keeps us from our work, it's that reliance. Without cheap oil, we would be living closer to work (or working closer to where we live) and walking to school. It wasn't so long ago that I remember using my bicycle to get to work and my parents and brother walking to work after a snowstorm. That would have been around 1963 or 1964. But today, here? Everyone is literally frozen in place and signs of cabin fever are appearing. Emergency workers are responding only to highest priority calls and few are making long journeys to work. And an ice storm is highly possible on Saturday.

Anything you can do with your forum to raise awareness about one of our major vulnerabilities will be an enormous public service. Thanks for that and for all your other contributions.

-- Old Git (anon@spamproblems.com), January 27, 2000.

Downstreamer,

Many THANKS for your considerable efforts to educate the forum on oil matters. Will be stopping by your site to get the latest on oil.

Ray

-- Ray (ray@totacc.com), January 27, 2000.

Downstreamer - You are an excellent example of an anonymous, well-mannered poster who has rightly fostered great respect on this forum. Thank you so much for your contributions here and on other forums.

-- Brooks (brooksbie@hotmail.com), January 27, 2000.

Later D.S. see you 'downstream"

-- Billy Boy (Rakkasan101st@Aol.com), January 27, 2000.

Y2k has been an amazing phenom, Downstreamer, you're exactly right. What the polly-types don't get is that it was, for some of us, a catalyst to new and better ways of understanding the world.

Very much looking forward to learning about oil issues in more detail, and to posts on Ed's e-groups board.

-- silver ion (ag3@interlog.com), January 27, 2000.

Bye downstreamer. See you at the petro boards, where I lurk daily. Thanks for all the great info.

-- mommacarestx (nospam@thanks.com), January 27, 2000.