Re: I miss Gerry Quinn

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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