Oh good, I am glad that someone has said something after my long and probably over the top explanation of how pleased I was.

Sorry about that, but I wanted to express my gratitude even though it would read like a whole lot of ass-kissing!  Plus I also found my old Atari in the attic and all of the Atari love flooded back.  I hope all my disks still work and perhaps there are some rareties in there.  I will not be able to check them for a little while as the ancient hardware is acting up.

The D-BUG/Automation history is interesting!  And I asked about what you would call yourselves because the term "hackers" has quite negative or destructive connotations and since the nature of your organisation(s) is so creative, it seemed to me like the wrong term.  "Pirates" is good but sounds eqally destructive.  Piracy also seems to apply equally to people downloading software as well as those modifying it.  Perhaps an appropriate term does not exist.