Re: I miss Gerry Quinn

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

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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?

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Hey! :)
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(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