I have spent some time away, and other time very busy, over the last
six months.  As a result I have found myself getting further and further
behind with RPCA.

  So I finally gave up and deleted 15,000 messages without looking!

  Oh, well!  I still collect articles for my Storypage, even though that
is three years behind, so any really good or funny stories in the last
few months may be missed: sorry!

  Similarly I still send Welcome! emails to newcomers, though that gets
rarer these days because of anti-spam eddresses, and I might stop that
soon.

  If anyone has any really good story from the last few months - not
necessarily one of your own - you could send it to me ot make sure I do
not miss it.

  Also if anyone has joined the newsgroup in that time and received no
Welcome! email why not write to me for yours?