Dear friends,

This is definitely "Wildly off-topic" and is not meant seriously, at least
not
by me!  The following observation neatly ties together the EOW
(end-of-world)
thread and the various Bill-Gates-bashing subthreads on this fine list.

>     Bill Gates dancin' with the devil??
>     The real name of "the" Bill Gates is William Henry Gates III. Nowadays

>     he is known as Bill Gates (III), where "III" means the order of third 
>     (3rd.)
>
>     By converting the letters of his current name to the ASCII-values and 
>     adding his (III), you get the following:
>
>     B       66
>     I       73
>     L       76
>     L       76
>     G       71
>     A       65
>     T       84
>     E       69
>     S       83
>     I        1
>     I        1
>     I        1
>     ----------
>             666!
>     Some might ask, "How did Bill Gates get so powerful?" Coincidence? Or 
>     just the beginning of mankind's ultimate and total enslavement???
>
>     Before you decide, consider the following:
>     M  S  -  D  O  S     6  .  2  1
>
>     77+83+45+68+79+83+32+54+46+50+49 = 666
>     W  I  N  D  O  W  S  9  5
>
>     87+73+78+68+79+87+83+57+53+1 = 666
>
>     Just a bit of maundering for you numerology freaks out there.
>


Scott (spending a pleasant evening catching up on the Digest) Burdman
Midrange Team - Americas
Oracle Worldwide Customer Support Services