Chambers wrote:
> Maybe he accidentally got deleted?

Yeah, kinda sad when all you know about a person is a usenet alias that 
simply vanishes one day.  In such occasions I like to entertain myself 
thinking the guy has just got something better to do in life than 
exchange thoughts with total strangers behind other aliases. ;)

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nemesis wrote:
> Yeah, kinda sad when all you know about a person is a usenet alias that 
> simply vanishes one day.

Altho it's kind of weird.  I set up a facebook account to write a program to 
interface with something else I was doing for work.  I keep getting friend 
requests from people I knew 15 years ago, via chains of friends who were on 
mailing lists I was on 10 years ago. Small world.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Ouch ouch ouch!"
   "What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
   "No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."

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nemesis wrote:
> Chambers wrote:
>> Maybe he accidentally got deleted?
> 
> Yeah, kinda sad when all you know about a person is a usenet alias that 
> simply vanishes one day.

I keep thinking to myself that if I died, almost nobody would actually 
know about it. They'd just assume I'd stopped going online. There are so 
few people who actually know me IRL... :-(

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

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On 2/7/2009 1:17 AM, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> Chambers wrote:
>>> Maybe he accidentally got deleted?
>>
>> Yeah, kinda sad when all you know about a person is a usenet alias
>> that simply vanishes one day.
>
> I keep thinking to myself that if I died, almost nobody would actually
> know about it. They'd just assume I'd stopped going online. There are so
> few people who actually know me IRL... :-(
>

If you ever stopped posting, nobody here would assume you just stopped 
going online.  We'd all be seriously worried ;)

Speaking of long lost newsgroupies, I can think of quite a few others I 
don't see around here anymore.

-- 
...Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com

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Chambers wrote:

> If you ever stopped posting, nobody here would assume you just stopped 
> going online.  We'd all be seriously worried ;)

Yeah, but you'd never actually know what happened. You wouldn't know if 
I lost my job and had to sell my PC, or whether I was killed by giant 
millipedes.

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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

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On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:46:21 -0500, Tom Galvin <tom### [at] impnospamorg> wrote:

>...Ken?

The last I remember of Ken is he bought a new camera and disappeared into the
hills to play with it.
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 
> Yeah, but you'd never actually know what happened. You wouldn't know if
> I lost my job and had to sell my PC, or whether I was killed by giant
> millipedes.
> 

If you'd lost your job, you'd probably have a month or two notice time.
By that time your PC would become so obsolete that selling it would make
no good.

;)

-Aero

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On 7-2-2009 10:17, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> nemesis wrote:
>> Chambers wrote:
>>> Maybe he accidentally got deleted?
>>
>> Yeah, kinda sad when all you know about a person is a usenet alias 
>> that simply vanishes one day.
> 
> I keep thinking to myself that if I died, almost nobody would actually 
> know about it. They'd just assume I'd stopped going online. There are so 
> few people who actually know me IRL... :-(

If I know sufficiently in advance that I will disappear from this group 
I plan to do a 'last post'. As there is no tradition of those yet (I am 
wondering why), I don't know what will be in it. I expect some trumpets, 
a shattered sphere and depending on the way I leave some other 
attributes (rope/pavement/bed, earth/fire/a metal table, ...).

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Chambers wrote:
> 
>> If you ever stopped posting, nobody here would assume you just stopped 
>> going online.  We'd all be seriously worried ;)
> 
> Yeah, but you'd never actually know what happened. You wouldn't know if 
> I lost my job and had to sell my PC, or whether I was killed by giant 
> millipedes.

Or if you moved back to your home planet... ;)

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Stephen wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:46:21 -0500, Tom Galvin <tom### [at] impnospamorg> wrote:
> 
>> ...Ken?
> 
> The last I remember of Ken is he bought a new camera and disappeared into the
> hills to play with it.

That's creepy. :P

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