Re: Bobby Burro / gjd

George J. Dance wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:09:28 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:
 

On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:50:18 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
 On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:25:45 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:
 On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:18:21 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:25:57 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:51:09 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:00:01 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:13:50 +0000, HarryLime wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jan 2025 17:16:16 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
 But a. a. p. c. Is a Usenet newsgroup above all else.
It *was* a newsgroup
No, it still exists, obviously, since here we are.
 😏
 Wrong, Donkey.  You and George are still here.
 Wrong, Michael Monkey. You and Will are still there. I'm still here in
RAP, one of the groups you're crossposting to.
 I'm only dropping by for a visit, George.
 Usenet AAPC is more of a newsduo.
 There's also Jordy, Zod, Rachel with David Dalton and others dropping by
from time to time.
 Not a large group but a solid core group.
 Yep; aapc is now the Monkey and the Donkey, just as Karen Tellefsen
predicted two years ago:
quote
Monkey Shines
 Round this newsgroup's sorry remains
the monkey mocked the donkey.
The monkey though himself quite the wag,
and donkey a fine target.
 A penny for a silly verse,
A nickel for an insult.
That's how Usenet went downhill.
Don't troll the donkey.
/q
 Again, it has only been Monkey-Donkey for a few days
 I'm sure Zod, Jordy and Rachel will be posting again shortly, the snow
and fires might have distracted them.
 You've already been playing it for a month, and I expect you'll still be
playing it a month from now. How time flies when you're having fun!
 I have already said my goodbye
 Okay, best of luck and good riddance, again.
 

  If only we could be sure he'd leave. That was the problem with the
Monkey Cage (as I used to call his "Usenet version" of AYOS) - we'd stay
out of it, but they would not stay in. I really hoped that, after they
moved the Cage over to Facebook, they would stay there; but we can't
trust them to do that, either.
 

All Usenet conversations eventually reach a point whereat the discussion
becomes repetitive; and I'm afraid that such has become the case with
this one.
 Out of courtesy, I shall respond to this post, and any others you might
have made in the interim; after which I shall be taking my leave.
 I shall be dropping by again at some future date -- but precisely when
is anybody's guess.
 Almost perfect second hand of Peter J. Ross.
 

   

😏
 All of the group's members got fed up with you and George and left.
They've all relocated to the Official AAPC Group on FB.
 Wrong, Michael Monkey. Your online friends left aapc for your facebook
group because they couldn't post to usenet after google stopped
supporting it.
 It took a couple of attempts for my NovaBBS account to go through, but
once it did, I have been able to post (as you can see).
 So what? We're discussing why your online friends left aapc, not whether
they can return or not.
 That's what I've been attempting to explain
 No explanation required.
 Usenet newsgroups exist for those with an interest in using them.
 The others *could* have switched over to a Newsreader, had they chosen
to do so.
 I doubt any of them knew how to use a Newsreader at the time, either
(except Cujo de Sockpuppet, of course). No reason they should, of
course.
 It's not rocket science, George.
 Yet people like Nancy Gene and Jim Senetto never seemed to understand
that there's more than Google Groups happening here.
 In fact, it's little different than using Google Groups.
 And didn't you claim that Jim was posting here as late as November 2024
(i.e., post-Google Groups)?
 I think Google Groups renamed in operation until February 2024.
 

   

 You're back where you were 15 years ago when I first came here: alone
with George Dance and desperate for company.
 No, that's another lie, Lying Michael. There were plenty of people
posting on aapc 15 years ago, and even 10 years ago when you actually
began posting there, including more than one of your online friends.
 And I expect there will be again, now that Michael Pendragon and his
gang of troll thugs are gone.
 As previously noted: when I first posted here in 2010, I stayed for
several days.  At that time, there was only you, your Donkey, and a ton
of spam for Vicodin and Viagra.
 No, Laying Michael. I don't have a full list of people posting there in
aapc, but I do remember it included at least two of your online friends
now on your facebook page - your Chimp, and Corey Conman. So give it up.
 Yes, J. Corey Connor has posted here for over twenty years, and Jim
Senetto was posting as far back as 2007 or so, under his Blackpool Jimmy
alias.
 

  Of course as their online friend the Lime sock would know that. But as
you say he lies and misrepresents about anything.
 

As I said, I had only checked out the group for a few days.  It is
possible that Corey and Jim were elsewhere at that time.
 Both Corry and Senetto came and went frequently, but they were well
known regulars.
 I don't recall Jim being around until several years after I'd returned
to the group in 2014 (I'll take your word as to that date).
 Blackpool Jimmy was definitely around 2007-2009 and we were friendly
during those years.
 Theoretically, there could have been "plenty" of others posting here who
had all decided to take a few days off... however, the overwhelming
number of spam posts is usually indicative of a group that has become
stagnant.
 Every public group, on usenet or facebook attracts spam posts; IME,
high-traffic groups attract more of it (because high traffic means more
potential customers). The only way to eliminate it is to control who can
post, which is not possible in an alt. group like aapc.
 That has not been my experience, George.  The alt.50s group rarely
received that sort of spam because when they did, it was immediately
reported.  The 50s group had a much larger membership than AAPC.
 Not in the heyday of a.a.p.c.
 

  As far as I remember, no one reported spam here; we "skipped and
ignored" it in those days.
 

OTOH, various sites that had gone out of use, had become dumping grounds
for spam.  IMHO, AAPC was well on its way to becoming one of those
dumping grounds.
  Your lie doesn't even make sense; if there wree only two people posting
on aapc, then who was supposedly getting "fed up" with them?
 Exactly.
 There was Gray Gamble, JRS, Karla Rogers, Tom Bishop, Cook...
 

  Tom died in 2007. (I just looked it up on PPP; a great asset.)
 

The list of regulars of that era is long.
 Are you really that dense, George?
 Back to your childish insults already, Pendragon?
 

  Does he ever stop?
 

When I first came here in 2010, had just driven all of the
others away.
 That's absurd, not to mention a blatant lie.
 Will did not "drive away" either your Chimp or the Conman, as noted.
Neither did he drive away "PJR" and his assorted trolls, who were still
here until about 2016 or so. As I told you, you were trying to rewrite
history; give is up.
 Why does Michael Pendragon lie and misrepresent so much?
 

  As I said a while back, I think it comes from being abused as a child.
Which reminds me; that thread's been sitting without any activity for a
while.
 

I can only assume that they were the "regulars" PJR was
always referring to, but who were long gone when I started posting
regularly in 2015.
 Since Piggy Ross was referring to them, he obviously had not been
"driven away" even by 2014 (when you actually began posting), either.
 Please stop with the childish name-calling
 Look who's talking.
 😏
 In 2014, Peter Ross only dropped by the group sporadically.  When he did
so (and only when he did so), other posters would suddenly materialize
to take part in the conversations he'd initiate (Horatio, Gwyneth, Cujo,
Aratzio, etc.).
 The impression I received was that the group had dwindled down to three
regularly posting members: Will, Corey, and you; and that PJR was a
former member who would arrive out of nowhere with an entourage -- and
depart just as suddenly with them in tow.
 Yes, and it wouldn't surprise me to see PJR back here at any time.
 Nor was his online friend Gary Gamble (who was posting under a different
sock), nor his flunkie Cujo de Sockpuppet, It was a pretty lively list
in those days. There were lots of people on aapc, both in 2010 and in
2014.
 AFAIK, Gary Gamble never posted here since I've been around.
 Gary Gamble used another name for the last years he posted here.
 George Dance might remember the moniker GG used at the end, I don't,
right now.
 

  "Generic". I used to call him "The Generic Troll."
 

And so it was.