<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>If Mike is retiring permanently then I'll be sure to say that I appreciate the ideas he has contributed over the last 18 years. (At least, that's where the EM archives start.) I wasn't here for the first stretch, but I've read through the archives a few times. If Mike had never posted to the list, I'm not sure I would have the same stances I do now (or perhaps it would have taken me longer to reach them), or that I would have thought to do the same work that I have, or even what vocabulary I would be using in some cases. (For example, consider the FBC, a Mike invention that motivated much investigation by myself and others.)</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;
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