Hey, I just got a mail from a new member, Brad. here's the mail:

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Hi Peter, Thanks for letting me join. I would like to start my membership out
by being pointed at the first steps in learning how to program. I've been doing
some reading on Qbasic that's on my computer. Also interested in a weekly or
? news letters. Thank you for your time and responses
Brad Briggs
daddyradb@aol.com
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My response was as follows:

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Hi Brad!
Thanks for joining and welcome!

We're really happy that our member base is growing... How did you find us?
(we're just curious)

You should know we're a real community and not a hierarchial thing... Me,
Fabs and Fsvara are the crew members, we're maintaining the site but we're
just as any other member. Of course we can answer any questions about the
system/community itself.

It's cool that you're interested in programming. Fabs has a great "Becoming
a programmer" tutorial at
http://www.ypr.34sp.com/show.php?tutorials/become/intro - it's about Qbasic.
It might be too easy for you, but if it is, let me know and tell me what
level you're on.

We don't do any newsletters, although there has been such ideas. We might do
that if there is a bigger interest... Otherwise, we always post updates on
our messageboard, http://www.ypr.34sp.com/phpBB/ , where you can also
discuss any specific or general topic... We have a funny off-topic forum
too. It's worth to check out.

Another thing I recommend you to check out is our IRC channel. That's where
we meet at talk. There are no organized meetings (except for some online
lectures once in a while, always announced on the messageboard) but there is
always somebody there, and almost certainly someone active. The channel is
on irc.chatjunkies.org #ypr. If you don't know how to use IRC, read my
"Quick IRC tutorial": http://www.ypr.34sp.com/show.php?tutorials/irc .

Thanks again for your mail and have fun as a part of the community! (as
that's what it's for)

/Péter LT.
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