Re: I miss Gerry Quinn

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