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I’d like to thank Leslie Miller for her great article about Q-Link which appeared in the February 10, 2000 issue of USA Today. It was a pleasure to be interviewed for the article. :-)

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Mikee / Mike Ward

                 Here's a letter from one of the real old-timers. Mikee has the
                 distinction of having been the second member hired to be a
                 QGuide. He also was most certainly the QGuide with the longest
                 service, having been active in the QGuide program almost until the
                 end.

                   If you see this, Mikee, thanks again for writing! :-)

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Subj: Hey, Al!!
Date: 12/22/98 11:58:16 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: mward@crl.com (Mike Ward)
Reply-to: mward@crl.com
To: uncleal2@aol.com

Hi guy! I must say that I just now stumbled upon your "Remembering
Q-Link" page, and you did one heck of a job of it. I thought about doing one
myself, but it's not necessary now ;)

Now, if I ever need to explain Q-Link to those who weren't around when it
was alive, all I have to do it point them to your page.

Of course, I could also still point out that Q-Link influenced even more than
you've listed, like the ubitquous use (even in commercials) of what we used
to call "QShorthand", smileys, etc...and it seems that after 13 years, I still
can't stop using them!!! Arrgh!

I'm thinking of putting together a story for your page - but I'd have no idea
how to start. As I wrote when I wrote my farewell letter on AOL a year or so
back, a good part of my past dozen-plus years was tied up in there (mainly
on Q-Link, though it was tough to explain that to the AOL-only types ;).

Feel free to put this letter up in your mailbag section.

BTW, in case you wondered, I'm out here on the West Coast not terribly far
from you now...I'm a reporter/editor/anchor and technology reporter for
Sacramento's top-rated news/talk radio station, NewsTalk 1530 KFBK...

Have a good one! Great page! :)

me