I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time from the drive to work.

Okay. So today we're going to try something a little different.

So one of the things that I often do is I answer questions. I do a lot of mailbag columns. In my column, it's called odds and ends.

And in my, in the podcast, I've done mailbag with Matt and I've done replies with Rachel.

So today I was going to do a podcast about answer, about mailbags.

Now, I'm not doing a mailbag column.

It's like meta.

I'm not doing a mailbag column.

I usually need someone else in the car to do mailbag column.

I need someone to read me the questions.

But I was going to talk a little bit about mailbag columns, a little bit about doing mailbag things.

I'm going to talk a little about the history of doing the mailback columns in my article and then doing mailbags here.

So it's sort of, it's a podcast about replying to audience questions.

And I'll even throw in, I do that live as well.

So today is answering questions, that's my topic.

So let me talk a little bit about the different ways they answer questions

and then talk about the challenges of answering questions.

Okay, so the first thing, I think the first place I ever answered

questions actually was on the Usenet, which is early days of the internet. Some of the earlier,

before the World Wide Web, before there were a lot of web pages per se, a lot of the ways people

interacted were basically bulletin board. So places were, there were topics and people could

post questions and people talk. So I, in the earliest days, when I first went to the Usenet Board,

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