If you're lurking, guy, I still think of you.

You taught me the word "putative," and was always an intelligent and
engaging correspondant. I think I even played a demo roguelike of yours.

I hope life finds you well (and sick of Usenet) and nothing more.

Cheers!

--
Zag

West of House
There is a small mailbox here.

read leaflet

"WELCOME TO USENET!

USENET is a game of adventure, danger,
and low cunning. In it you will
explore some of the most amazing
territory ever seen by mortals. No
computer should be without it!"

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Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote:

If you're lurking, guy, I still think of you.

You taught me the word "putative," and was always an intelligent and
engaging correspondant. I think I even played a demo roguelike of yours.

I hope life finds you well (and sick of Usenet) and nothing more.

I like to think that after calling each and every regular poster here
stupid at least once (I kept track), he left us idiots and moved to a
forum that could properly appreciate his genius.

--
l/ // Ross Ridge -- The Great HTMU
[oo][oo] rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
-()-/()/ http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca:11068/
db //

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On Fri, 04 Oct 2024 11:23:27 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 03 Oct 2024 15:21:29 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

If you're lurking, guy, I still think of you.

You taught me the word "putative," and was always an intelligent and >>engaging correspondant. I think I even played a demo roguelike of yours.

I hope life finds you well (and sick of Usenet) and nothing more.

I gotta say, I've no recollection of who that is. ;-)

But I was dredging through my Usenet archives the other day, and it
was a delight to see a bunch of names I hadn't thought of in _years_;
people like Schrodinger, riku, Werner Spahl, Trimble, Mr Rob *, TimO,
Shawk, Nostromo and more who used to be regulars but over the years
drifted away, replaced by new faces. You can't help but wonder, "What >happened to them?" They all added to the interesting melange that is
Usenet.

So let's all raise a cup to all those who drifted away from Usenet;
thanks for giving us something to read all those years ago! And
another glass for the newcomers who've taken their places since then.
It'd be a boring place if it was just me scribbling my thoughts into
the void ;-)

I'll raise a glass to most, but not to "Mr. September."

--
Zag

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

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On Thu, 3 Oct 2024 22:23:31 -0000 (UTC), in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Ross Ridge wrote:

Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote:

If you're lurking, guy, I still think of you.

You taught me the word "putative," and was always an intelligent and >>engaging correspondant. I think I even played a demo roguelike of yours.

I hope life finds you well (and sick of Usenet) and nothing more.

I like to think that after calling each and every regular poster here
stupid at least once (I kept track), he left us idiots and moved to a
forum that could properly appreciate his genius.

LOL. That's also why I miss him.

--
Zag

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

But I was dredging through my Usenet archives the other day, and it
was a delight to see a bunch of names I hadn't thought of in _years_;
people like Schrodinger, riku, Werner Spahl, Trimble, Mr Rob *, TimO,
Shawk, Nostromo and more who used to be regulars but over the years
drifted away, replaced by new faces. You can't help but wonder, "What >happened to them?" They all added to the interesting melange that is
Usenet.

Oh, oh, I have a theory about the last one, Nostromo. Here's a classic
from the Usenet archives, dated August 11th, 2011:

I always imagined he lost his job after getting caught downloading porn
at work, and soon after his wife kicked him out of the house after doing nothing but play Tomb Raider (with nude patch) for a week straight.
He then spent several years wandering the Outback, constantly on the
run from an imaginary pink kangaroo named "Jonah Falcon", all the while muttering about how Fallout 3 was an obmination.

They say on clear night standing atop Ayers Rock you can hear his voice crying "I don't have to have played it to know it sucks!".

--
l/ // Ross Ridge -- The Great HTMU
[oo][oo] rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
-()-/()/ http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca:11068/
db //

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rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote:

If you're lurking, guy, I still think of you.

You taught me the word "putative," and was always an intelligent and >>engaging correspondant. I think I even played a demo roguelike of yours.

I hope life finds you well (and sick of Usenet) and nothing more.

I like to think that after calling each and every regular poster here
stupid at least once (I kept track), he left us idiots and moved to a
forum that could properly appreciate his genius.

So Comp.Os.Linux.Advocacy then?

Xocyll

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On Fri, 4 Oct 2024 17:41:05 -0000 (UTC), in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Ross Ridge wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

But I was dredging through my Usenet archives the other day, and it
was a delight to see a bunch of names I hadn't thought of in _years_; >>people like Schrodinger, riku, Werner Spahl, Trimble, Mr Rob *, TimO, >>Shawk, Nostromo and more who used to be regulars but over the years
drifted away, replaced by new faces. You can't help but wonder, "What >>happened to them?" They all added to the interesting melange that is >>Usenet.

Oh, oh, I have a theory about the last one, Nostromo.

I kept touch via email with Nostromo for a while after he left. He had to
get out of Usenet entirely for whatever reason. He was just done.

Your imaginative description may have a grain of truth in it somewhere.

--
Zag

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

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On Sat, 05 Oct 2024 11:20:05 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Fri, 04 Oct 2024 12:21:42 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

On Fri, 04 Oct 2024 11:23:27 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 03 Oct 2024 15:21:29 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> >>>wrote:

If you're lurking, guy, I still think of you.

You taught me the word "putative," and was always an intelligent and >>>>engaging correspondant. I think I even played a demo roguelike of yours. >>>>
I hope life finds you well (and sick of Usenet) and nothing more.

I gotta say, I've no recollection of who that is. ;-)

But I was dredging through my Usenet archives the other day, and it
was a delight to see a bunch of names I hadn't thought of in _years_; >>>people like Schrodinger, riku, Werner Spahl, Trimble, Mr Rob *, TimO, >>>Shawk, Nostromo and more who used to be regulars but over the years >>>drifted away, replaced by new faces. You can't help but wonder, "What >>>happened to them?" They all added to the interesting melange that is >>>Usenet.

So let's all raise a cup to all those who drifted away from Usenet; >>>thanks for giving us something to read all those years ago! And
another glass for the newcomers who've taken their places since then. >>>It'd be a boring place if it was just me scribbling my thoughts into
the void ;-)

I'll raise a glass to most, but not to "Mr. September."

I don't remember that person either. Probably for the best ;-)

"Mr. September" is my general name for anyone who barreled in here like
it was September, insulted everyone immediately or made a general,
ignorant pita out of themselves, and then either hung on or scarpered immediately leaving a generally aura of WTAF in their wake, or not
because they never left.

There are just those people.

Steamkiller falls into the pita category and is a candidate for "Mr. September."

He's also a calendar model. Yum.

--
Zag

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

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On Fri, 04 Oct 2024 11:23:27 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, 03 Oct 2024 15:21:29 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

If you're lurking, guy, I still think of you.

You taught me the word "putative," and was always an intelligent and >>engaging correspondant. I think I even played a demo roguelike of yours.

I hope life finds you well (and sick of Usenet) and nothing more.

I gotta say, I've no recollection of who that is. ;-)

But I was dredging through my Usenet archives the other day, and it
was a delight to see a bunch of names I hadn't thought of in _years_;
people like Schrodinger, riku, Werner Spahl, Trimble, Mr Rob *, TimO,
Shawk, Nostromo and more who used to be regulars but over the years
drifted away, replaced by new faces. You can't help but wonder, "What >happened to them?" They all added to the interesting melange that is
Usenet.

So let's all raise a cup to all those who drifted away from Usenet;
thanks for giving us something to read all those years ago! And
another glass for the newcomers who've taken their places since then.
It'd be a boring place if it was just me scribbling my thoughts into
the void ;-)

Werner Spahls patch obsession was memorable (and hey, I admire any
long-term commitment to making things better, even though I never
actually tried his patches). Trimble was always kind of a character
that I found I needed to poke often for effect, but it was always sort
of a well intentioned poking.

But are you sure you want to raise a cup to TimO? I mean I realize he
made an effort to get along with some while he went out of his way to
troll me (which he later found out was an epic mistake)... but he
typically referred to gay males as "shit dicks" and things like that.
I thought that would have put him on your naughty list?

* technically, Mr. Rob still is around; he makes a post every now and
again, but a regular he is not

I've always liked him, his penchant for things "craptastic" made his contributions interesting, I thought.

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On Fri, 04 Oct 2024 14:33:18 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote in <m6d0gjlraj2db7the84u36hotg61n5cb2t@4ax.com>:

rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote:

If you're lurking, guy, I still think of you.

You taught me the word "putative," and was always an intelligent and >>>engaging correspondant. I think I even played a demo roguelike of
yours.

I hope life finds you well (and sick of Usenet) and nothing more.

I like to think that after calling each and every regular poster here >>stupid at least once (I kept track), he left us idiots and moved to a
forum that could properly appreciate his genius.

So Comp.Os.Linux.Advocacy then?

Hey! :)

(Some of us Linux crazies continue on in there -- but you have
to have a fairly robust killfile, including ignoring posts
crossposted to various political troll 'froups...)

--
-v ASUS TUF Dash F15 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3060 Mobile
OS: Linux 5.15.0-122-lowlatency Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 15.9G

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On 6 Oct 2024 08:29:31 GMT, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, vallor
wrote:

On Fri, 04 Oct 2024 14:33:18 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote in ><m6d0gjlraj2db7the84u36hotg61n5cb2t@4ax.com>:

rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote:

If you're lurking, guy, I still think of you.

You taught me the word "putative," and was always an intelligent and >>>>engaging correspondant. I think I even played a demo roguelike of >>>>yours.

I hope life finds you well (and sick of Usenet) and nothing more.

I like to think that after calling each and every regular poster here >>>stupid at least once (I kept track), he left us idiots and moved to a >>>forum that could properly appreciate his genius.

So Comp.Os.Linux.Advocacy then?

Hey! :)

Hey yourself! Your community has a rep. And a penchant for telling people
to go to console and hand edit something in etc, in VI (no Emacs!) with
no understanding that most people aren't capable of even finding etc.

I kid, of course. ;^)

--
Zag

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

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vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> looked up from reading the entrails of the
porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:

On Fri, 04 Oct 2024 14:33:18 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote in ><m6d0gjlraj2db7the84u36hotg61n5cb2t@4ax.com>:

rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote:

If you're lurking, guy, I still think of you.

You taught me the word "putative," and was always an intelligent and >>>>engaging correspondant. I think I even played a demo roguelike of >>>>yours.

I hope life finds you well (and sick of Usenet) and nothing more.

I like to think that after calling each and every regular poster here >>>stupid at least once (I kept track), he left us idiots and moved to a >>>forum that could properly appreciate his genius.

So Comp.Os.Linux.Advocacy then?

Hey! :)

(Some of us Linux crazies continue on in there -- but you have
to have a fairly robust killfile, including ignoring posts
crossposted to various political troll 'froups...)

I was there many many years ago, before I was even on usenet (it was a
group ported to fidonet that I read via a local BBS.)

The OS flame wars were in full swing at the time, a killfile was very necessary. Later on using a newsreader for email, I killfiled entire countries, friggen scammer spammers.

Xocyll

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On Sun, 06 Oct 2024 11:31:50 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote
in <2pe5gjlqanfae9grgqf70r0adng3oreelq@4ax.com>:

On 6 Oct 2024 08:29:31 GMT, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, vallor
wrote:

On Fri, 04 Oct 2024 14:33:18 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote in >><m6d0gjlraj2db7the84u36hotg61n5cb2t@4ax.com>:

rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote:

If you're lurking, guy, I still think of you.

You taught me the word "putative," and was always an intelligent and >>>>>engaging correspondant. I think I even played a demo roguelike of >>>>>yours.

I hope life finds you well (and sick of Usenet) and nothing more.

I like to think that after calling each and every regular poster here >>>>stupid at least once (I kept track), he left us idiots and moved to a >>>>forum that could properly appreciate his genius.

So Comp.Os.Linux.Advocacy then?

Hey! :)

Hey yourself! Your community has a rep. And a penchant for telling
people to go to console and hand edit something in etc, in VI (no
Emacs!) with no understanding that most people aren't capable of even
finding etc.

I kid, of course. ;^)

LOL, no worries. :)

I post weird things in there to get discussion going sometimes -- like
when I upgrade my kernel, and how long it took to compile it.

(Though, I'm currently using my Tufbook with a stock kernel,
since we're about to head off to the Lone Pine Film Festival,
and I'm making sure the laptop doesn't let me down. :)

ObGaming:

I installed Elite Dangerous Odyssey on here and flew around
using keyboard and touchpad for control. Very strange. I've never used keyboard/touchpad, or keyboard/mouse, for flying; I have a HOTAS.

I tried the on-foot tutorial. Discovered my default touchpad
driver would disable itself while typing, so had to hunt for
the setting to allow changing direction while moving. (This is
also a problem for some Windows installations, if Google searches
are any indication.)

--
-Scott ASUS TUF Dash F15 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3060 Mobile
OS: Linux 5.15.0-122-lowlatency Release: Mint 21.3 Mem: 15.9G
"A closed mouth gathers no feet."

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On 04/10/2024 16:23, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 03 Oct 2024 15:21:29 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

If you're lurking, guy, I still think of you.

You taught me the word "putative," and was always an intelligent and
engaging correspondant. I think I even played a demo roguelike of yours.

I hope life finds you well (and sick of Usenet) and nothing more.

I gotta say, I've no recollection of who that is. ;-)

But I was dredging through my Usenet archives the other day, and it
was a delight to see a bunch of names I hadn't thought of in _years_;
people like Schrodinger, riku, Werner Spahl, Trimble, Mr Rob *, TimO,
Shawk, Nostromo and more who used to be regulars but over the years
drifted away, replaced by new faces. You can't help but wonder, "What happened to them?" They all added to the interesting melange that is
Usenet.

So let's all raise a cup to all those who drifted away from Usenet;
thanks for giving us something to read all those years ago! And
another glass for the newcomers who've taken their places since then.
It'd be a boring place if it was just me scribbling my thoughts into
the void ;-)

There's some names from the past!

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On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 18:30:26 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

There's some names from the past!

Yeah, the only name mentioned in this thread I don't remember at all
is Gerry Quinn.

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On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:45:32 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Mike
S. wrote:

On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 18:30:26 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

There's some names from the past!

Yeah, the only name mentioned in this thread I don't remember at all
is Gerry Quinn.

Probably PTSD.

--
Zag

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

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JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote at 17:30 this Tuesday (GMT):

On 04/10/2024 16:23, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Thu, 03 Oct 2024 15:21:29 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

If you're lurking, guy, I still think of you.

You taught me the word "putative," and was always an intelligent and
engaging correspondant. I think I even played a demo roguelike of yours. >>>
I hope life finds you well (and sick of Usenet) and nothing more.

I gotta say, I've no recollection of who that is. ;-)

But I was dredging through my Usenet archives the other day, and it
was a delight to see a bunch of names I hadn't thought of in _years_;
people like Schrodinger, riku, Werner Spahl, Trimble, Mr Rob *, TimO,
Shawk, Nostromo and more who used to be regulars but over the years
drifted away, replaced by new faces. You can't help but wonder, "What
happened to them?" They all added to the interesting melange that is
Usenet.

So let's all raise a cup to all those who drifted away from Usenet;
thanks for giving us something to read all those years ago! And
another glass for the newcomers who've taken their places since then.
It'd be a boring place if it was just me scribbling my thoughts into
the void ;-)

There's some names from the past!

Neat! I hope yall don't drift away too :(
--
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> wrote at 08:29 this Sunday (GMT):

On Fri, 04 Oct 2024 14:33:18 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote in
<m6d0gjlraj2db7the84u36hotg61n5cb2t@4ax.com>:

rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote:

If you're lurking, guy, I still think of you.

You taught me the word "putative," and was always an intelligent and >>>>engaging correspondant. I think I even played a demo roguelike of >>>>yours.

I hope life finds you well (and sick of Usenet) and nothing more.

I like to think that after calling each and every regular poster here >>>stupid at least once (I kept track), he left us idiots and moved to a >>>forum that could properly appreciate his genius.

So Comp.Os.Linux.Advocacy then?

Hey! :)

(Some of us Linux crazies continue on in there -- but you have
to have a fairly robust killfile, including ignoring posts
crossposted to various political troll 'froups...)

I post there occasionally, but I think I have all crossposts set to
-9999
--
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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On 08/10/2024 22:22, Zaghadka wrote:

On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:45:32 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Mike
S. wrote:

On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 18:30:26 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

There's some names from the past!

Yeah, the only name mentioned in this thread I don't remember at all
is Gerry Quinn.

Probably PTSD.

I can't say I remember them but I've always wondered with the really
obnoxious knob jockeys - how many of them act like that in real life?

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On 10/9/2024 3:12 AM, JAB wrote:

On 08/10/2024 22:22, Zaghadka wrote:

On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:45:32 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Mike
S. wrote:

On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 18:30:26 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

There's some names from the past!

Yeah, the only name mentioned in this thread I don't remember at all
is Gerry Quinn.

Probably PTSD.

I can't say I remember them but I've always wondered with the really obnoxious knob jockeys - how many of them act like that in real life?

Too many. I'm sure many have joined MIGA (Make Internet Great Again).

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

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On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 21:40:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Neat! I hope yall don't drift away too :(

I've been here for over 30 years. Only death is going to take me away.

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JAB <noway@nochance.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:

On 08/10/2024 22:22, Zaghadka wrote:

On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:45:32 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Mike
S. wrote:

On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 18:30:26 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

There's some names from the past!

Yeah, the only name mentioned in this thread I don't remember at all
is Gerry Quinn.

Probably PTSD.

I can't say I remember them but I've always wondered with the really >obnoxious knob jockeys - how many of them act like that in real life?

Likely all of them, at least at first.

Unlike usenet, real life assholeness carries with it the risk of getting punched in the face repeatedly.

That tend to put a bit of a damper on the activity that online rebukes
never can.

Xocyll

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Mike S <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote at 14:27 this Wednesday (GMT):

On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 21:40:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Neat! I hope yall don't drift away too :(

I've been here for over 30 years. Only death is going to take me away.

Hopefully that doesn't happen too.
--
user <candycane> is generated from /dev/urandom

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On Wed, 09 Oct 2024 10:27:03 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Mike
S. wrote:

On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 21:40:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 ><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Neat! I hope yall don't drift away too :(

I've been here for over 30 years. Only death is going to take me away.

I can't remember how long I've been here, but it's far less than that. I
think Spalls has an archive dating back to before the eternal September.
Maybe he can tell me?

--
Zag

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

Of course, Google's archive isn't complete; it only goes back to late
1994. There are probably earlier "Mike S." posts that are, sadly, now
lost to history.

For me, the Google Groups archive for this newsgroup goes back to
when it was created in early 1993. That includes a post from a "Mike
S." about Carrier Command on November 1, 1993, so I think maybe you got
your years confused.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action/c/0F1kP8yklS4/m/QOfilI3U_acJ

The earliest "Mike S" post (without the final period, so maybe a diferrent person) I could find was this one on the subject of "DoD License Plate
Frame in PostScript for ftp'ing", dated August 6th, 1991:

https://groups.google.com/g/tx.motorcycles/c/5sEvzCnnYDo/m/42FA4F2TWm4J

...

Um, er...

And I just found what those DoD numbers people used to have in their
signatures actually are. (You can see one in the post I linked above.)
I always though it was a "Department of Defence" number assigned to
contractors or something that worked with the US Department of Defence.
(Which is actually a thing now, but not back then.)

Turns out they were actually membership numbers in the "Denizens of Doom" online motorcycle club.

*sigh* I can't believe it took me over three decades to figure this out.

--
l/ // Ross Ridge -- The Great HTMU
[oo][oo] rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
-()-/()/ http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca:11068/
db //

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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 20:30 this Wednesday (GMT):

On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 18:10:09 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Mike S <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote at 14:27 this Wednesday (GMT):

On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 21:40:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 >>><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Neat! I hope yall don't drift away too :(

I've been here for over 30 years. Only death is going to take me away.

Hopefully that doesn't happen too.

I think you're going to be disappointed with that one ;-)

Besides, half the fun is the coming and going of new faces and voices.
How boring it would be if it was the same conversations with the same
people over and over again.

TL;DR: I'm eagerly waiting for MikeS to die

(j/k, obviously)

;-)

I guess.. I just don't like death..
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On 09/10/2024 18:02, Xocyll wrote:

JAB <noway@nochance.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:

On 08/10/2024 22:22, Zaghadka wrote:

On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:45:32 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Mike >>> S. wrote:

On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 18:30:26 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

There's some names from the past!

Yeah, the only name mentioned in this thread I don't remember at all
is Gerry Quinn.

Probably PTSD.

I can't say I remember them but I've always wondered with the really
obnoxious knob jockeys - how many of them act like that in real life?

Likely all of them, at least at first.

Unlike usenet, real life assholeness carries with it the risk of getting punched in the face repeatedly.

That tend to put a bit of a damper on the activity that online rebukes
never can.

I'm more thinking of those that act like it when they think they can get
away with it so a prime example is being an arsehole to people who work
in shops knowing they can't 'fight' back.

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On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 11:41:22 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

The earliest one I found in c.s.i.p.g.action through Google and using
the nickname "Mike S." was from November 2 1994, regarding "Carrier
Command". Of course, the name may refer to somebody else but it's as
close as I could get. As for the game, Mikey liked it! ;-) >https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action/c/0F1kP8yklS4/m/QOfilI3U_acJ

Of course, Google's archive isn't complete; it only goes back to late
1994. There are probably earlier "Mike S." posts that are, sadly, now
lost to history.

That is not me. I never played Carrier Command. Also, I was likely
posting under a different variation of my first and last name way back
in 1994. Finally, I wasn't in this newsgroup at all back then. I was
only in .rpg and .strategic.

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On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:17:24 -0000 (UTC), Ross Ridge wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

Of course, Google's archive isn't complete; it only goes back to late
1994. There are probably earlier "Mike S." posts that are, sadly, now
lost to history.

For me, the Google Groups archive for this newsgroup goes back to
when it was created in early 1993. That includes a post from a "Mike
S." about Carrier Command on November 1, 1993, so I think maybe you got
your years confused.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action/c/

0F1kP8yklS4/m/QOfilI3U_acJ

The earliest "Mike S" post (without the final period, so maybe a

diferrent

person) I could find was this one on the subject of "DoD License Plate
Frame in PostScript for ftp'ing", dated August 6th, 1991:

https://groups.google.com/g/tx.motorcycles/c/5sEvzCnnYDo/m/

42FA4F2TWm4J

...

Um, er...

And I just found what those DoD numbers people used to have in their signatures actually are. (You can see one in the post I linked above.)
I always though it was a "Department of Defence" number assigned to contractors or something that worked with the US Department of Defence. (Which is actually a thing now, but not back then.)

Turns out they were actually membership numbers in the "Denizens of

Doom"

online motorcycle club.

*sigh* I can't believe it took me over three decades to figure this out.

The newgroup control message for this group is dated:

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 20:42:07 GMT

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"Bald: follicularly challenged."

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On 10/11/2024 1:02 AM, JAB wrote:

On 09/10/2024 18:02, Xocyll wrote:

JAB <noway@nochance.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

On 08/10/2024 22:22, Zaghadka wrote:

On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:45:32 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Mike
S. wrote:

On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 18:30:26 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

There's some names from the past!

Yeah, the only name mentioned in this thread I don't remember at all >>>>> is Gerry Quinn.

Probably PTSD.

I can't say I remember them but I've always wondered with the really
obnoxious knob jockeys - how many of them act like that in real life?

Likely all of them, at least at first.

Unlike usenet, real life assholeness carries with it the risk of getting
punched in the face repeatedly.

That tend to put a bit of a damper on the activity that online rebukes
never can.

I'm more thinking of those that act like it when they think they can get
away with it so a prime example is being an arsehole to people who work
in shops knowing they can't 'fight' back.

The real assholes in that situation are the managers and owners who
won't let the staff call security on people being abusive and exercise
their right to refuse service.

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

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Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:

On 10/9/2024 11:10 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:

Mike S <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote at 14:27 this Wednesday (GMT):

On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 21:40:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Neat! I hope yall don't drift away too :(

I've been here for over 30 years. Only death is going to take me away.

Hopefully that doesn't happen too.

I was just watching someone's standup on youtube where he asked the
question of something like "do you really want to live forever?"

Half the audience answered no, the other half didn't respond. There
were no yeses.

I'm definitely old enough not to want to live forever. If the world
were all fun and games, and I got to go back to being around 35 and in >perfect physical shape, I might consider it.

There was a story I read about 4 decades or so back.

Guy makes a deal with the devil and wishes for immortality and that he
cannot die unless he chooses to.
He figures he beat the devil and will never have to pay up.

Then he finds he still ages, still gets decrepit, but cannot die.

Couple hundred years down the line, he's basically a mummy, nothing
works, pain all the time.

Immortality at 25, full head of hair, thin, metabolism that lets you eat anything, not disorders diseases or damage from accidents/football or
whatnot, sure thing.

Immortality at 60+ would mostly just fucking suck.

Xocyll

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JAB <noway@nochance.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:

On 09/10/2024 18:02, Xocyll wrote:

JAB <noway@nochance.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say:

On 08/10/2024 22:22, Zaghadka wrote:

On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:45:32 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Mike >>>> S. wrote:

On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 18:30:26 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

There's some names from the past!

Yeah, the only name mentioned in this thread I don't remember at all >>>>> is Gerry Quinn.

Probably PTSD.

I can't say I remember them but I've always wondered with the really
obnoxious knob jockeys - how many of them act like that in real life?

Likely all of them, at least at first.

Unlike usenet, real life assholeness carries with it the risk of getting
punched in the face repeatedly.

That tend to put a bit of a damper on the activity that online rebukes
never can.

I'm more thinking of those that act like it when they think they can get
away with it so a prime example is being an arsehole to people who work
in shops knowing they can't 'fight' back.

Until they find out the lowly employee is actually the owner and they
just got banned for life.

Don't ever insult a bartender, often they can be the owner.

Xocyll

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On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 11:41:22 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:33:25 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

On Wed, 09 Oct 2024 10:27:03 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Mike >>S. wrote:

On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 21:40:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 >>><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Neat! I hope yall don't drift away too :(

I've been here for over 30 years. Only death is going to take me away.

I can't remember how long I've been here, but it's far less than that. I >>think Spalls has an archive dating back to before the eternal September. >>Maybe he can tell me?

Nope. Although you can still search Google News for older stuff if you
need to. Google stopped updating it* in February 2024, but anything
older than that can still be found.

Google has posts dating back to 2016. My archive has my posts dating back
to 2015, but I know that the first one that shows (Christmas gifts) is
after a few years of participation. My archive has blown up several
times.

So I've been around for at least 10 years.

--
Zag

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

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Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

The whole nick thing is a problem; I was a totally different person on
Usenet back then too. ;-) Actually, one of the problems I have
tracking down my older posts is that I went through so many nyms and
NNTP hosts that I've forgotten most of them.

I've kept it simple. I've been using the same email address for 30
years now, and always used the same name, my real name. Never saw the
need to hide it. Even in online games I tend to use my real name.

--
l/ // Ross Ridge -- The Great HTMU
[oo][oo] rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
-()-/()/ http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca:11068/
db //

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On Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:43:27 -0000 (UTC), rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
(Ross Ridge) wrote:

I've kept it simple. I've been using the same email address for 30
years now, and always used the same name, my real name. Never saw the
need to hide it. Even in online games I tend to use my real name.

I always use a variation of my real name on Usenet and also on every
forum I join, but never my full name. Not sure why it would even
bother me though, as both my first and last name are very common. I
think it is just a general rule of thumb I have always followed. Don't
share any more personal info online then you have to.

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Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote at 14:58 this Saturday (GMT):

On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 11:41:22 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:33:25 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

On Wed, 09 Oct 2024 10:27:03 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Mike >>>S. wrote:

On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 21:40:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 >>>><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Neat! I hope yall don't drift away too :(

I've been here for over 30 years. Only death is going to take me away.

I can't remember how long I've been here, but it's far less than that. I >>>think Spalls has an archive dating back to before the eternal September. >>>Maybe he can tell me?

Nope. Although you can still search Google News for older stuff if you
need to. Google stopped updating it* in February 2024, but anything
older than that can still be found.

Google has posts dating back to 2016. My archive has my posts dating back
to 2015, but I know that the first one that shows (Christmas gifts) is
after a few years of participation. My archive has blown up several
times.

So I've been around for at least 10 years.

Oh wow, pretty old :D
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On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:50:03 -0000 (UTC), in
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, candycanearter07 wrote:

Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote at 14:58 this Saturday (GMT):

On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 11:41:22 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:33:25 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> >>>wrote:

On Wed, 09 Oct 2024 10:27:03 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Mike >>>>S. wrote:

On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 21:40:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 >>>>><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Neat! I hope yall don't drift away too :(

I've been here for over 30 years. Only death is going to take me away. >>>>

I can't remember how long I've been here, but it's far less than that. I >>>>think Spalls has an archive dating back to before the eternal September. >>>>Maybe he can tell me?

Nope. Although you can still search Google News for older stuff if you >>>need to. Google stopped updating it* in February 2024, but anything
older than that can still be found.

Google has posts dating back to 2016. My archive has my posts dating back
to 2015, but I know that the first one that shows (Christmas gifts) is
after a few years of participation. My archive has blown up several
times.

So I've been around for at least 10 years.

Oh wow, pretty old :D

I was born on Usenet.

--
Zag

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

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Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote at 18:29 this Tuesday (GMT):

On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:50:03 -0000 (UTC), in
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, candycanearter07 wrote:

Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote at 14:58 this Saturday (GMT):

On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 11:41:22 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:33:25 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> >>>>wrote:

On Wed, 09 Oct 2024 10:27:03 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Mike >>>>>S. wrote:

On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 21:40:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 >>>>>><candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Neat! I hope yall don't drift away too :(

I've been here for over 30 years. Only death is going to take me away. >>>>>

I can't remember how long I've been here, but it's far less than that. I >>>>>think Spalls has an archive dating back to before the eternal September. >>>>>Maybe he can tell me?

Nope. Although you can still search Google News for older stuff if you >>>>need to. Google stopped updating it* in February 2024, but anything >>>>older than that can still be found.

Google has posts dating back to 2016. My archive has my posts dating back >>> to 2015, but I know that the first one that shows (Christmas gifts) is
after a few years of participation. My archive has blown up several
times.

So I've been around for at least 10 years.

Oh wow, pretty old :D

I was born on Usenet.

Impressive :D
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On 10/15/2024 5:20 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 21:20:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote at 18:29 this Tuesday (GMT):

On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:50:03 -0000 (UTC), in
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, candycanearter07 wrote:

Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote at 14:58 this Saturday (GMT):

Google has posts dating back to 2016. My archive has my posts dating back >>>>> to 2015, but I know that the first one that shows (Christmas gifts) is >>>>> after a few years of participation. My archive has blown up several
times.
So I've been around for at least 10 years.

Oh wow, pretty old :D

I was born on Usenet.

Impressive :D

You only say that because you weren't around for the diaper changes
;-)

I wonder how much trouble his parents had finding a news server and
group to conceive him in....

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

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On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 18:35:39 -0700, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 10/15/2024 5:20 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 21:20:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote at 18:29 this Tuesday (GMT):

On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 00:50:03 -0000 (UTC), in
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, candycanearter07 wrote:

Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com> wrote at 14:58 this Saturday (GMT):

Google has posts dating back to 2016. My archive has my posts dating back
to 2015, but I know that the first one that shows (Christmas gifts) is >>>>>> after a few years of participation. My archive has blown up several >>>>>> times.
So I've been around for at least 10 years.

Oh wow, pretty old :D

I was born on Usenet.

Impressive :D

You only say that because you weren't around for the diaper changes
;-)

I wonder how much trouble his parents had finding a news server and
group to conceive him in....

alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk worked out for them.

--
Zag

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

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On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:29:33 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:

I was born on Usenet.

And I am going to die here.

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