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Then the other kind of mail started coming in:

• ``I'm flying in from Sweden to go to your party, can you recommend a nearby hotel?''

• ``A bunch of us are driving a bus from Florida, see you there!''

• ``Do you know the best way to the club from the Golden Gate Bridge? I'm driving down from Eureka.''

• ``How big is this place, anyway? I've gotten your invitation from six different mailing lists already.''

• ``One of my co-workers is on some lesbian computer programmer mailing list, and one of the mails that went through was "mozilla.org is having a party, let's go!" I suspect that this isn't unique.

  So just in case every single person comes out of the woodwork (and Unibomber psycho clones with them) does the party have, like, security guards and bouncers and general ass-kickers for people who get out of line?''

We had been considering making some posters and flyers to spread around in Multimedia Gulch and at the JavaOne conference. At this point, it was clear that such tactics were not necessary.

I was glad of that, actually, because of a conversation that has transpired between me and a club promoter a few months back. He had handed me a flyer for his club, and I said, ``I wonder how long it will be before people stop promoting clubs with paper, and do it solely through the net?'' To which he replied, ``Well, that would be when I have to stop going out, because I'm afraid of computers.''

I note that I didn't see him at the party.

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