# Thank you for your interest

## phimvt@lurac.latrobe.edu.au — 2000-07-06 03:28:18

    Dear friends of Joy

        I have just come back from a long well deserved holiday (six months,

    although I really deserved 10 years). I had managed to join the concatenative

    group in early May, and the contributions have been collecting at a rate

    too fast for me to read properly in the occasional half hour that I have

    spent in my office. However, I have been able to gain  superficial impres-

    sions, and I want to congratulate you all. The level of discussion has

    been very excellent, and the tone invariably friendly and cooperative.

    I now look forward to reading the 402 contributions (in two months), and

    reply to some of them. Many of the replies written by some of you have

    been better than I could have done, and in that case I'll not add anything.

    But it will take time, you will have to be patient.

        Congratulations again.

            Best wishes

    	    Manfred