Perhaps the dearth of posts to rasfw is due to the absence of Paul S
Person who contributes to most discussions?
Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence?
Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence? Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
we can do to follow up.
I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
often there's no trace.
pt
Cryptoengineer wrote:
On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence?
Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
we can do to follow up.
I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
often there's no trace.
pt
He hasn't posted the last 30 days and yous are frighten the end of
Usenet?
When you PLONK everybody...there's no one left in your pool to be seen.
On 10/22/2026 12:28 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Cryptoengineer wrote:
On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence?
Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
we can do to follow up.
I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
often there's no trace.
pt
He hasn't posted the last 30 days and yous are frighten the end of
Usenet?
When you PLONK everybody...there's no one left in your pool to be seen.
I have never 'plonked' anyone.
However, there are many who I don't feel are often worth responding to.
pt
On 10/22/2026 12:28 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Cryptoengineer wrote:
On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence?
Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
we can do to follow up.
I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
often there's no trace.
pt
He hasn't posted the last 30 days and yous are frighten the end of
Usenet?
When you PLONK everybody...there's no one left in your pool to be seen.
I have never 'plonked' anyone.
However, there are many who I don't feel are often worth responding to.
pt
On 10/22/26 13:38, Cryptoengineer wrote:
On 10/22/2026 12:28 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Cryptoengineer wrote:
On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence? >>>> Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
we can do to follow up.
I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
often there's no trace.
pt
He hasn't posted the last 30 days and yous are frighten the end of
Usenet?
When you PLONK everybody...there's no one left in your pool to be seen.
I have never 'plonked' anyone.
However, there are many who I don't feel are often worth responding to.
pt
Maybe he is traveling or has gotten sick of the
ignorant stuff people were writing. AS well as the
Trollish cross-postings
I will plonk but my filters are reduced because
I had a problem and had to rename my old Thunderbird
directory then mine it with Betterbird very carefully to
get the new installation working...
Then I copied the stuff from Betterbird to backups which
I load in Thunderbird. The old profile was fubar so
I could not load it into the Thunderbird directly
without the risk of messing up the fresh install.
Not a procedure I would wish on anyone
else but someone who might be doing horrible
things otherwise. I might have been cooking something
if I had not spent yesterday evening working on
this stuff.
bliss
bliss wrote:
On 10/22/26 13:38, Cryptoengineer wrote:
On 10/22/2026 12:28 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Cryptoengineer wrote:I have never 'plonked' anyone.
On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence? >>>>>> Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
we can do to follow up.
I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
often there's no trace.
pt
He hasn't posted the last 30 days and yous are frighten the end of
Usenet?
When you PLONK everybody...there's no one left in your pool to be seen. >>>
However, there are many who I don't feel are often worth responding to.
pt
Maybe he is traveling or has gotten sick of the
ignorant stuff people were writing. AS well as the
Trollish cross-postings
I will plonk but my filters are reduced because
I had a problem and had to rename my old Thunderbird
directory then mine it with Betterbird very carefully to
get the new installation working...
Then I copied the stuff from Betterbird to backups which
I load in Thunderbird. The old profile was fubar so
I could not load it into the Thunderbird directly
without the risk of messing up the fresh install.
Not a procedure I would wish on anyone
else but someone who might be doing horrible
things otherwise. I might have been cooking something
if I had not spent yesterday evening working on
this stuff.
bliss
The missing person also crossposts. How can he get sick of his own crosspostings????
On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence?
Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
we can do to follow up.
I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
often there's no trace.
On 10/22/26 13:38, Cryptoengineer wrote:
On 10/22/2026 12:28 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Cryptoengineer wrote:
On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence? >>>>> Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
we can do to follow up.
I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
often there's no trace.
pt
He hasn't posted the last 30 days and yous are frighten the end of
Usenet?
When you PLONK everybody...there's no one left in your pool to be seen.
I have never 'plonked' anyone.
However, there are many who I don't feel are often worth responding to.
pt
˙˙˙˙Maybe he is traveling or has gotten sick of the
ignorant stuff people were writing.˙ AS well as the
Trollish cross-postings
˙˙˙˙I will plonk but my filters are reduced because
I had a problem and had to rename my old Thunderbird
directory then mine it with Betterbird very carefully to
get the new installation working...
Then I copied the stuff from Betterbird to backups which
I load in Thunderbird.˙ The old profile was fubar so
I could not load it into the Thunderbird directly
without the risk of messing up the fresh install.
˙˙˙˙Not a procedure I would wish on anyone
else but someone who might be doing horrible
things otherwise.˙ I might have been cooking something
if I had not spent yesterday evening working on
this stuff.
˙˙˙˙bliss
The Starmaker wrote:
bliss wrote:
On 10/22/26 13:38, Cryptoengineer wrote:
The missing person also crossposts. How can he get sick of his own
crosspostings????
You have message this person allegedly wrote? I'd prefer to see it with
my own eyes, Stargozer.
On 7/24/2024 6:19 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:Win64 kernels. I document some of those on my website:
Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
I saw an article where Microsoft was blaming the EU for forcing them
to allow 3rd-party access to the Kernal, which they claim is what
enabled the update to do bad things. If that is true, they may have a
point.
There is always third-party access to the kernel. In the Windows NT days
before Microsoft had figured out 1960s-style memory protection, any program
in user space could make changes to the kernel. And sometimes they
accidentally did.
What the EU forced Microsoft to do was to DOCUMENT the kernel so that
people could more reliably get third-party access.
--scott
There have always been back doors into the DOS, Win16, Win32, and
https://www.winsim.com/diskid32/diskid32.html
The Starmaker wrote:
bliss wrote:
On 10/22/26 13:38, Cryptoengineer wrote:
On 10/22/2026 12:28 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Cryptoengineer wrote:I have never 'plonked' anyone.
On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence? >>>>>> Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
we can do to follow up.
I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
often there's no trace.
pt
He hasn't posted the last 30 days and yous are frighten the end of
Usenet?
When you PLONK everybody...there's no one left in your pool to be seen. >>>
However, there are many who I don't feel are often worth responding to. >>>
pt
Maybe he is traveling or has gotten sick of the
ignorant stuff people were writing. AS well as the
Trollish cross-postings
I will plonk but my filters are reduced because
I had a problem and had to rename my old Thunderbird
directory then mine it with Betterbird very carefully to
get the new installation working...
Then I copied the stuff from Betterbird to backups which
I load in Thunderbird. The old profile was fubar so
I could not load it into the Thunderbird directly
without the risk of messing up the fresh install.
Not a procedure I would wish on anyone
else but someone who might be doing horrible
things otherwise. I might have been cooking something
if I had not spent yesterday evening working on
this stuff.
bliss
The missing person also crossposts. How can he get sick of his own crosspostings????
You have message this person allegedly wrote? I'd prefer to see it with
my own eyes, Stargozer.
Verily, in article <10q94gr$qon8$1@dont-email.me>, did atropos@mac.com=20 >deliver unto us this message:
And this is just more of the same. And yes, Colbert and his kid are = writing
it.
Oh boy.
keep theIt's not a sequel as the original post claimed. It's the Tom Bombadil
chapters from FELLOWSHIP that Peter Jackson cut from the script to =
movie from being four hours long instead of just two and change.
That actually sounds like a good idea for extra content. Everyone loves=20 >Tom Bombadil, even though Tolkein himself said we were all making too=20
much of him.
Let's hope the Colberts pere and fil have the hidden chops to do it=20 >right.=20
On 23/10/2026 09:38, Cryptoengineer wrote:
snippage
On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence? >>>>> Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
we can do to follow up.
I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
often there's no trace.
I couldn't remember the name of the person who converted Dorothy Heydt's novel, The Interior Life" except his first name, Bill, so looked up old
posts of Dorothy's that I had kept and was amazed at the number of names
of posters who have disappeared. I didn't find Bill's surname.
Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:snip
I couldn't remember the name of the person who converted Dorothy Heydt's
novel, The Interior Life" except his first name, Bill, so looked up old
posts of Dorothy's that I had kept and was amazed at the number of names
of posters who have disappeared. I didn't find Bill's surname.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
One of the many pertinent usenet articles crediting Bill Gill appears
below. (It stimulates schadenfreude if search engines amped with
allegedly all-knowing AI fail to find such usenet posts.)
Subject: Digitizing _The Interior Life_, redux
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 23:20:03 GMT
So Bill Gill has scanned _TIL_ for me, and designated three
(well, four, including chapter titles) fonts for it, and I have
proofed and re-oroofed it till my eyes are ready to fall out of
my head, and sent it back to him.
And today I got the following email from him:
>I have started trying to embed the fonts we selected into the
>EPUB. Only one of the 4 will embed. The others are locked to keep
>them from being embedded. I have found a utility on line that will
>unlock them. That of course kind of skips merrily over the copyright
>laws. Trying to find unlocked fonts will start us down a long and
>winding trail. What do you want to do about it? At this point I will
>leave it up to you.
>We could:
>break the fonts and go ahead and use them
>start searching again.
>Choose less distinctive fonts that are already unlocked.
>Others?
I have suggested that he spend a couple days on option (3). But
I think we need advice at this point, from people who have gone
through this already.
(Though, probably, not with three fonts.)
Any ideas? LWE, I'm asking you in particular, since you put a
lot of your OOP books online and seem to have succeeded.
(Though, probably, not with three fonts.)
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
Don.......My cat's )\._.,--....,'``. veritas _|_ telltale tall tail /, _.. \ _\ (`._ ,. liberabit |
tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' vos |
Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
On 23/10/2026 09:38, Cryptoengineer wrote:
snippage
On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence? >>>>>> Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
we can do to follow up.
I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
often there's no trace.
I couldn't remember the name of the person who converted Dorothy Heydt's
novel, The Interior Life" except his first name, Bill, so looked up old
posts of Dorothy's that I had kept and was amazed at the number of names
of posters who have disappeared. I didn't find Bill's surname.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
One of the many pertinent usenet articles crediting Bill Gill appears
below. (It stimulates schadenfreude if search engines amped with
allegedly all-knowing AI fail to find such usenet posts.)
Subject: Digitizing _The Interior Life_, redux
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 23:20:03 GMT
So Bill Gill has scanned _TIL_ for me, and designated three
(well, four, including chapter titles) fonts for it, and I have
proofed and re-oroofed it till my eyes are ready to fall out of
my head, and sent it back to him.
And today I got the following email from him:
>I have started trying to embed the fonts we selected into the
>EPUB. Only one of the 4 will embed. The others are locked to keep
>them from being embedded. I have found a utility on line that will
>unlock them. That of course kind of skips merrily over the copyright
>laws. Trying to find unlocked fonts will start us down a long and
>winding trail. What do you want to do about it? At this point I will
>leave it up to you.
>We could:
>break the fonts and go ahead and use them
>start searching again.
>Choose less distinctive fonts that are already unlocked.
>Others?
I have suggested that he spend a couple days on option (3). But
I think we need advice at this point, from people who have gone
through this already.
(Though, probably, not with three fonts.)
Any ideas? LWE, I'm asking you in particular, since you put a
lot of your OOP books online and seem to have succeeded.
(Though, probably, not with three fonts.)
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
Don.......My cat's )\._.,--....,'``. veritas _|_ telltale tall tail /, _.. \ _\ (`._ ,. liberabit |
tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' vos |
There have always been back doors into the DOS, Win16, Win32, andWin64 kernels. I document some of those on my website:
https://www.winsim.com/diskid32/diskid32.html
I still have my Undocumented books (DOS, PC, Windows) and, somewhere a
very popular in its day list of IRQs that I downloaded at some point.
Blaine wrote:
You have message this person allegedly wrote? I'd prefer to see it with
my own eyes, Stargozer.
Can you read English?
The Starmaker wrote:
Blaine wrote:
You have message this person allegedly wrote? I'd prefer to see it with
my own eyes, Stargozer.
Can you read English?
Perhaps the Syndicate didn't explain. While we're out here, you're
supposed to be my subordinate. You can't even see the pictures on the
cover of the books in the Adult section.
It follows that I would ask for
the visual information to be relayed, Stargozer. Take off your full body brain-scan machine & look to the details of the inquiry. I don't need
your antipodal machinations. You can seek power grabs in your next post playing the dumb stupid clown on Usenet. But while we're out here, on MY mission, you will be subordinate, prole. Now get back in your machine &
hook up & get the stuff done.
--
Can you strip away so we may start again?
"There?s a switch and they don't
seem authentic or themselves. It
feels like I?m an unnecessary
body and it?s a waste of time to
even be there." -- Grim, playful Blaine.
Blaine wrote:
Go ahead, go over to a girl and ask her..."Did you read the book 'Moby
DICK'?
Blaine wrote:
The Starmaker wrote:
Blaine wrote:
You have message this person allegedly wrote? I'd prefer to see it with >> my own eyes, Stargozer.
Can you read English?
Perhaps the Syndicate didn't explain. While we're out here, you're
supposed to be my subordinate. You can't even see the pictures on the
cover of the books in the Adult section.
I understand that Fiction books may have pictures on it's cover...
but you may never have heard the expression before...
"You Cannot Tell A Book By It's Cover."
Any 13 year old when he walks in a Libary...the fiction books section
doesn't have pictures in it.
Why bother reading it? IT'S FICTION!
Let me put it this way..
there are on average 4 million books published every year...
i don't have time to read them all...
which ones should i read?
"Invasion of the Flying Saucers"?
WAT DA FUCK IS WRONG WIT YOUS PEOPLE?? YOUS READING ALL THE WRONG BOOKS!
"Moby Dick"??
fag stories.
Go ahead, go over to a girl and ask her..."Did you read the book 'Moby's DICK'?
The Starmaker wrote:
Blaine wrote:
Go ahead, go over to a girl and ask her..."Did you read the book 'Moby
DICK'?
The girl said no. What do I do next? This is a long book. Are you sure you're my contact?
On 10/24/2026 4:36 AM, Blaine wrote:
The Starmaker wrote:
Blaine wrote:
Go ahead, go over to a girl and ask her..."Did you read the book 'Moby
DICK'?
The girl said no. What do I do next? This is a long book. Are you sure
you're my contact?
Side note, apparently, when Moby Dick is used in a classroom, it's com-
mon to ask for the name of the narrator.
It's also common for the students to completely miss it, based on early internet memes.
Who needs to read the first sentence in a book?
On 10/23/26 14:03, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
On 10/24/2026 4:36 AM, Blaine wrote:
The Starmaker wrote:
Blaine wrote:
Go ahead, go over to a girl and ask her..."Did you read the book 'Moby >>>> DICK'?
The girl said no. What do I do next? This is a long book. Are you
sure you're my contact?
Side note, apparently, when Moby Dick is used in a classroom, it's com-
mon to ask for the name of the narrator.
It's also common for the students to completely miss it, based on early
internet memes.
Who needs to read the first sentence in a book?
˙˙˙˙Please pay attention to the Newsgroup line of the header
section. You are still tormenting the souls in the ante-chamber
to hell known as sci.physics.relativity.˙ Speaking of the
prior descriptions of the posters there with no persoan
experience of sci.physics.relativity.
˙˙˙˙bliss
Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote or quoted:
I couldn't remember the name of the person who converted Dorothy Heydt's
novel, The Interior Life" except his first name, Bill, so looked up old
posts of Dorothy's that I had kept and was amazed at the number of names
of posters who have disappeared. I didn't find Bill's surname.
In January, I made an evaluation. It includes names that left
until 2024. Here are the names with more than 9999 posts:
2008-06-23 Sea Wasp (10139 1.7/day), since 2000 or earlier
2010-10-08 Gene Ward Smith (12417 1.8/day), since 2003 or earlier
2013-05-22 Howard Brazee (13682 1.8/day), since 2004 or earlier
2013-10-24 Wayne Throop (30037 3.8/day), since 1994 or earlier
2015-03-03 Kurt Busiek (14432 1.7/day), since 2005 or earlier
2016-10-17 Brian M. Scott (10514 1.2/day), since 2003 or earlier
2017-02-11 William December Starr (18314 2.0/day), since 1999 or earlier 2018-01-11 Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy (21826 2.3/day), since 2007 o 2019-04-07 Greg Goss (11497 1.16/day), since 2007 or earlier
2020-01-15 David DeLaney (20322 2.0/day), since 2002 or earlier
2021-09-07 Lawrence Watt-Evans (13552 1.3/day), since 1997 or earlier 2021-09-19 Mike Schilling (25413 2.3/day), since 2002 or earlier
2021-11-20 Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) (16574 1.5/day), since 2008 or earl. 2022-08-13 J. Clarke (15372 1.4/day), since 2002 or earlier
2023-09-26 David Johnston (17072 1.5/day), since 1998 or earlier
2024-02-24 Quadibloc (23112 2.0/day), since 2007 or earlier
The Chatbot: Bill Gill conducted a separate scan, created the
digital cover art, and spent weeks sorting through hundreds of
options to find three distinct fonts. This font selection was
crucial, as the novel features multiple parallel narratives, and the
original paperback fonts were nearly indistinguishable to readers.
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics.relativity Followup-To: rec.arts.sf.written
The Starmaker wrote:
Blaine wrote:
The Starmaker wrote:
Blaine wrote:
You have message this person allegedly wrote? I'd prefer to see it with >>>>> my own eyes, Stargozer.
Can you read English?
Perhaps the Syndicate didn't explain. While we're out here, you're
supposed to be my subordinate. You can't even see the pictures on the
cover of the books in the Adult section.
I understand that Fiction books may have pictures on it's cover...
but you may never have heard the expression before...
"You Cannot Tell A Book By It's Cover."
Any 13 year old when he walks in a Libary...the fiction books section
doesn't have pictures in it.
Why bother reading it? IT'S FICTION!
Let me put it this way..
there are on average 4 million books published every year...
i don't have time to read them all...
which ones should i read?
"Invasion of the Flying Saucers"?
WAT DA FUCK IS WRONG WIT YOUS PEOPLE?? YOUS READING ALL THE WRONG BOOKS!
"Moby Dick"??
fag stories.
Go ahead, go over to a girl and ask her..."Did you read the book 'Moby's
DICK'?
Of course, being a girl she'll say.."It's not Moby's DICK, it's Moby
Dick, STUPID!"
I'll say, I haven't read the book but I saw a picture on the cover andGet a copy. Read Chapter 95, 'The Cassock'.
it's
some guy in the water with this real BIG THING!
On 10/23/26 14:03, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
On 10/24/2026 4:36 AM, Blaine wrote:
The Starmaker wrote:
Blaine wrote:
Go ahead, go over to a girl and ask her..."Did you read the book 'Moby >>>> DICK'?
The girl said no. What do I do next? This is a long book. Are you
sure you're my contact?
Side note, apparently, when Moby Dick is used in a classroom, it's com-
mon to ask for the name of the narrator.
It's also common for the students to completely miss it, based on early
internet memes.
Who needs to read the first sentence in a book?
˙˙˙˙Please pay attention to the Newsgroup line of the header
section. You are still tormenting the souls in the ante-chamber
to hell known as sci.physics.relativity.˙ Speaking of the
prior descriptions of the posters there with no persoan
experience of sci.physics.relativity.
˙˙˙˙bliss
On 23/10/2026 23:35, Stefan Ram wrote:
Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote or quoted:
I couldn't remember the name of the person who converted Dorothy Heydt's >>> novel, The Interior Life" except his first name, Bill, so looked up old
posts of Dorothy's that I had kept and was amazed at the number of names >>> of posters who have disappeared. I didn't find Bill's surname.
In January, I made an evaluation. It includes names that left
until 2024. Here are the names with more than 9999 posts:
2008-06-23 Sea Wasp (10139 1.7/day), since 2000 or earlier
2010-10-08 Gene Ward Smith (12417 1.8/day), since 2003 or earlier
2013-05-22 Howard Brazee (13682 1.8/day), since 2004 or earlier
2013-10-24 Wayne Throop (30037 3.8/day), since 1994 or earlier
2015-03-03 Kurt Busiek (14432 1.7/day), since 2005 or earlier
2016-10-17 Brian M. Scott (10514 1.2/day), since 2003 or earlier
2017-02-11 William December Starr (18314 2.0/day), since 1999 or earlier
2018-01-11 Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy (21826 2.3/day), since 2007 o
2019-04-07 Greg Goss (11497 1.16/day), since 2007 or earlier
2020-01-15 David DeLaney (20322 2.0/day), since 2002 or earlier
2021-09-07 Lawrence Watt-Evans (13552 1.3/day), since 1997 or earlier
2021-09-19 Mike Schilling (25413 2.3/day), since 2002 or earlier
2021-11-20 Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) (16574 1.5/day), since 2008 or earl.
2022-08-13 J. Clarke (15372 1.4/day), since 2002 or earlier
2023-09-26 David Johnston (17072 1.5/day), since 1998 or earlier
2024-02-24 Quadibloc (23112 2.0/day), since 2007 or earlier
The Chatbot: Bill Gill conducted a separate scan, created the
digital cover art, and spent weeks sorting through hundreds of
options to find three distinct fonts. This font selection was
crucial, as the novel features multiple parallel narratives, and the
original paperback fonts were nearly indistinguishable to readers.
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics.relativity
Followup-To: rec.arts.sf.written
Thank you for that information, especially your quotation from Bill Gill which pleasantly jogged my memory.
Sea Wasp and Lawrence Watt-Evans were valuable members but left the
group with fond farewells and are still alive.
Brian Scott still posts occasional reviews as "Default User".
Gutless changed his name to Jibini something but left after a nasty
flame war.
David Delaney was posting from his death bed.
J. Clarke was a prolific poster. I do not recall why he left.
Quadibloc, (Four Bricks in an Otherwise Empty Skull), posted recently as
John Savard. He has had a long absence after being confronted with facts which questioned his belief that the word of the White House Press
Secretary was sacred. I suspect this belief may have been further
shattered once the Orange American Saviour began his crusade. Or perhaps
he learnt that the so called Maiden Revolution was actually an armed rebellion that, with the covert assistance of the US, overthrew the democratically elected government, that it was West Ukrainian Nazi
snipers on roof tops who murdered the dozen plus police AND the hundred
plus protesters. Or perhaps he noticed that despite millions of words reporting on Epstein in the traditional US media, the word Israel has
yet to appear. Or perhaps he read that although the Democrats spent $30million investigating Russian influence on the last presidential
election, nothing of consequence was discovered.
On 23/10/2026 23:35, Stefan Ram wrote:
Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote or quoted:
I couldn't remember the name of the person who converted Dorothy Heydt's >>> novel, The Interior Life" except his first name, Bill, so looked up old
posts of Dorothy's that I had kept and was amazed at the number of names >>> of posters who have disappeared. I didn't find Bill's surname.
In January, I made an evaluation. It includes names that left
until 2024. Here are the names with more than 9999 posts:
[...]
On 10/23/26 10:47 PM, Titus G wrote:lots of snippage
On 23/10/2026 23:35, Stefan Ram wrote:
˙˙ In January, I made an evaluation. It includes names that left
˙˙ until 2024. Here are the names with more than 9999 posts:
2016-10-17 Brian M. Scott (10514 1.2/day), since 2003 or earlier
Brian Scott still posts occasional reviews as "Default User".
Thank you for these synopses.
Just fyi, While Default User is indeed named Brian, but I am pretty sure
he is not Brian Scott. For example, I believe the two of them posted in parallel here under different addresses for a long time.
But I could be wrong.
Tony
On 23/10/2026 23:35, Stefan Ram wrote:
In January, I made an evaluation. It includes names that left
until 2024. Here are the names with more than 9999 posts:
[...]
Then you get people like me who mostly lurk. I started reading rec.art.sflovers inthe late 1980's. Posting was only if I thought I had something useful to offer, I am not sure when I started, but it was
likely in the 1990's. I would be surprised if I ever posted more than
ten to 20 posts in a year.
Blaine wrote:
The Starmaker wrote:
Blaine wrote:
You have message this person allegedly wrote? I'd prefer to see it with >> >> my own eyes, Stargozer.
Can you read English?
Perhaps the Syndicate didn't explain. While we're out here, you're
supposed to be my subordinate. You can't even see the pictures on the
cover of the books in the Adult section.
I understand that Fiction books may have pictures on it's cover...
but you may never have heard the expression before...
"You Cannot Tell A Book By It's Cover."
Any 13 year old when he walks in a Libary...the fiction books section
doesn't have pictures in it.
Why bother reading it? IT'S FICTION!
Let me put it this way..
there are on average 4 million books published every year...
i don't have time to read them all...
which ones should i read?
On 10/22/2026 12:28 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
Cryptoengineer wrote:
On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence?
Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
we can do to follow up.
I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
often there's no trace.
pt
He hasn't posted the last 30 days and yous are frighten the end of
Usenet?
When you PLONK everybody...there's no one left in your pool to be seen.
I have never 'plonked' anyone.
However, there are many who I don't feel are often worth responding to.
On Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:34:04 -0700, The Starmaker
<starmaker@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
Blaine wrote:
The Starmaker wrote:
Blaine wrote:
You have message this person allegedly wrote? I'd prefer to see it with >>>>> my own eyes, Stargozer.
Can you read English?
Perhaps the Syndicate didn't explain. While we're out here, you're
supposed to be my subordinate. You can't even see the pictures on the
cover of the books in the Adult section.
I understand that Fiction books may have pictures on it's cover...
but you may never have heard the expression before...
"You Cannot Tell A Book By It's Cover."
Any 13 year old when he walks in a Libary...the fiction books section
doesn't have pictures in it.
Why bother reading it? IT'S FICTION!
Let me put it this way..
there are on average 4 million books published every year...
i don't have time to read them all...
which ones should i read?
Okay, this is how the book world works.
A 10 year kid goes to the library
to read a book.
He doesn't know which book to read
so he starts with 000-
until he finds a book that interest him.
As an adult I still go to the library
to find books..
I read the whole book
I follow the instructions..
and I end up with
newspaper and TV reporters
asking me questions Why
did I do that?
I tell them "I went to the
library, I followed the instructions.
I showed them the book from the library
with all the Instructions I followed verbatim.
They took their news camera and scan the book!
I end up on TV nationwide.
Go back to that 10 year old
and he finds another book that interests
him. Guns. How to take them part.
All types of gun, etc.
I end up in the army
win award for best sharpshooter
without ever owning or having a gun.
What does that all mean?
If a kid
walk into a library..
there is no telling
what he will become.
Each of yous are on a
unique 'path' that will take
you in the direction
of a straight line.
A book is a force
that changes
the direction
of that straight line.
If you read a fiction book..
a science fiction book...
you'll end up on planet
Mars...and discover
there are no Martians on it.
What a waste!
You read the wrong books.
Now, what kind of books do
Scientists read?
How to blow up things in the lab?
Albert Einstein reads patents.
He read Chinese patents about bombs.
His atomic bomb is a stolen patent design
from the Chinese...cherry bomb!
If Albert Einstein reads...
he can blow up the planet!
---
Albert Einstein wrote:
"I was well aware of the dreadful danger for all mankind, if these experiments would succeed..."
Then his Japanese friend wrote back:
Katsu Hara, the editor of the influential Japanese magazine Kaizo.
The letter ended with a direct address:
"Why did you co-operate with the production of the atomic bomb
although you were aware of its tremendous destructive power?"
https://www.bonhams.com/stories/40225/a-closer-look-albert-einstein-and-the-atomic-bomb/
---
Fast forward to Ai..
The 5 people who head Ai are
well aware of the dreadful danger for all mankind, if these
experiments continue..."
Why are these Ai 5 people are continuing if they
are aware of the danger????
On Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:38:49 -0400
Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/22/2026 12:28 PM, The Starmaker wrote:It might be woth looking at the xposted NGs though
Cryptoengineer wrote:
On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence? >>>>> Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
we can do to follow up.
I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
often there's no trace.
pt
He hasn't posted the last 30 days and yous are frighten the end of
Usenet?
When you PLONK everybody...there's no one left in your pool to be seen.
I have never 'plonked' anyone.
However, there are many who I don't feel are often worth responding to.
FU set to loony bin
To whomever it may concern:
This post is full of errors.
Seems like AI slop to me.
The Starmaker wrote:
˙Read that fantasy post was a waste of time.
Newsgroups trimmed.
On 27/10/2026 07:32, Blaine wrote:
The Starmaker wrote:
Bye Blaine. You can enjoy the company of Starmaker in my kill file.
Plonk.
In article <11bo7cr$s5f7$1@dont-email.me>,
bliss <blissInSanFrancisco@mousepotato.com> wrote:
To whomever it may concern:
This post is full of errors.
Seems like AI slop to me.
No, it's not AI. I think it's just Waldby's brain.
--scott
On 27/10/2026 07:50, bliss wrote:
?Read that fantasy post was a waste of time.
Yes. Starmaker is a nonsensical troll.
On 27/10/2026 07:50, bliss wrote:
? Read that fantasy post was a waste of time.
Yes. Starmaker is a nonsensical troll.
On Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:35:04 +1300, Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
On 27/10/2026 07:50, bliss wrote:
Read that fantasy post was a waste of time.
Yes. Starmaker is a nonsensical troll.
Titus G wrote:
On 27/10/2026 07:50, bliss wrote:
? Read that fantasy post was a waste of time.
Yes. Starmaker is a nonsensical troll.
"nonsensical"???? I'm not sure which part exactly was "nonsensical"?
I looked at What I wrote and I couldn't find which part
was..."nonsensical"?
Let's start with the first sentence I wrote:
"Okay, this is how the book world works."
(nothing there "nonsensical")
Let me look at the second sentence...
"A 10 year kid goes to the library
to read a book."
(strange I don't see any there that is "nonsensical"?)
I looked at What I wrote and I couldn't find which part
was..."nonsensical"?
(i don't see anything below anywhere? that is "nonsensical"?)
Is Titus a name of another country??? A latin country?
I can have the whole thing reposted in Latin! French? Afganastan???
He doesn't know which book to read
so he starts with 000-
until he finds a book that interest him.
As an adult I still go to the library
to find books..
I read the whole book
I follow the instructions..
and I end up with
newspaper and TV reporters
asking me questions Why
did I do that?
I tell them "I went to the
library, I followed the instructions.
I showed them the book from the library
with all the Instructions I followed verbatim.
They took their news camera and scan the book!
I end up on TV nationwide.
Go back to that 10 year old
and he finds another book that interests
him. Guns. How to take them part.
All types of gun, etc.
I end up in the army
win award for best sharpshooter
without ever owning or having a gun.
What does that all mean?
If a kid
walk into a library..
there is no telling
what he will become.
Each of yous are on a
unique 'path' that will take
you in the direction
of a straight line.
A book is a force
that changes
the direction
of that straight line.
If you read a fiction book..
a science fiction book...
you'll end up on planet
Mars...and discover
there are no Martians on it.
What a waste!
You read the wrong books.
Now, what kind of books do
Scientists read?
How to blow up things in the lab?
Albert Einstein reads patents.
He read Chinese patents about bombs.
His atomic bomb is a stolen patent design
from the Chinese...cherry bomb!
If Albert Einstein reads...
he can blow up the planet!
---
Albert Einstein wrote:
"I was well aware of the dreadful danger for all mankind, if these experiments would succeed..."
Then his Japanese friend wrote back:
Katsu Hara, the editor of the influential Japanese magazine Kaizo.
The letter ended with a direct address:
"Why did you co-operate with the production of the atomic bomb
although you were aware of its tremendous destructive power?"
https://www.bonhams.com/stories/40225/a-closer-look-albert-einstein-and-the-atomic-bomb/
---
Fast forward to Ai..
The 5 people who head Ai are
well aware of the dreadful danger for all mankind, if these
experiments continue..."
Why are these Ai 5 people are continuing if they
are aware of the danger????
I guess they got bored of coming up
with new computer viruses.
Ai agents are in fact..a computer virus,
just a little smarter.
How do you blow up planet Earth?
Go to the library.
(I heard Ai reads...everything!)
you let dat kid in the library
there is no telling what
he'll come up with.
--
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, and challenge
the unchallengeable.
I'm gonna have to make the assumption you only reads Fiction books.
Let me see...
what do you call a cat?
you know, those animals that say meow, meow to people.
In other words, what is the TRUE word for ...cat?
What do you call those animals that say meow, meow to people.
gato?
gatta??
kot?
Katze?
What is the TRUE word for ...cat?
Let me see. if you speak English, it's cat.
But that is not the TRUE word for cat!
That is just the English word.
What's the TRUE word?
Maybe somebody in the science fiction section can help you...
PUSSY?
Here PUSSY PUSSY PUSSY PUSSY.
The Starmaker wrote:
On Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:35:04 +1300, Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
On 27/10/2026 07:50, bliss wrote:
Read that fantasy post was a waste of time.
Yes. Starmaker is a nonsensical troll.
Titus G wrote:
On 27/10/2026 07:50, bliss wrote:
? Read that fantasy post was a waste of time.
Yes. Starmaker is a nonsensical troll.
"nonsensical"???? I'm not sure which part exactly was "nonsensical"?
I looked at What I wrote and I couldn't find which part was..."nonsensical"?
Let's start with the first sentence I wrote:
"Okay, this is how the book world works."
(nothing there "nonsensical")
Let me look at the second sentence...
"A 10 year kid goes to the library
to read a book."
(strange I don't see any there that is "nonsensical"?)
I looked at What I wrote and I couldn't find which part was..."nonsensical"?
(i don't see anything below anywhere? that is "nonsensical"?)
Is Titus a name of another country??? A latin country?
I can have the whole thing reposted in Latin! French? Afganastan???
He doesn't know which book to read
so he starts with 000-
until he finds a book that interest him.
As an adult I still go to the library
to find books..
I read the whole book
I follow the instructions..
and I end up with
newspaper and TV reporters
asking me questions Why
did I do that?
I tell them "I went to the
library, I followed the instructions.
I showed them the book from the library
with all the Instructions I followed verbatim.
They took their news camera and scan the book!
I end up on TV nationwide.
Go back to that 10 year old
and he finds another book that interests
him. Guns. How to take them part.
All types of gun, etc.
I end up in the army
win award for best sharpshooter
without ever owning or having a gun.
What does that all mean?
If a kid
walk into a library..
there is no telling
what he will become.
Each of yous are on a
unique 'path' that will take
you in the direction
of a straight line.
A book is a force
that changes
the direction
of that straight line.
If you read a fiction book..
a science fiction book...
you'll end up on planet
Mars...and discover
there are no Martians on it.
What a waste!
You read the wrong books.
Now, what kind of books do
Scientists read?
How to blow up things in the lab?
Albert Einstein reads patents.
He read Chinese patents about bombs.
His atomic bomb is a stolen patent design
from the Chinese...cherry bomb!
If Albert Einstein reads...
he can blow up the planet!
---
Albert Einstein wrote:
"I was well aware of the dreadful danger for all mankind, if these experiments would succeed..."
Then his Japanese friend wrote back:
Katsu Hara, the editor of the influential Japanese magazine Kaizo.
The letter ended with a direct address:
"Why did you co-operate with the production of the atomic bomb
although you were aware of its tremendous destructive power?"
https://www.bonhams.com/stories/40225/a-closer-look-albert-einstein-and-the-atomic-bomb/
---
Fast forward to Ai..
The 5 people who head Ai are
well aware of the dreadful danger for all mankind, if these
experiments continue..."
Why are these Ai 5 people are continuing if they
are aware of the danger????
I guess they got bored of coming up
with new computer viruses.
Ai agents are in fact..a computer virus,
just a little smarter.
How do you blow up planet Earth?
Go to the library.
(I heard Ai reads...everything!)
you let dat kid in the library
there is no telling what
he'll come up with.
--
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, and challenge
the unchallengeable.
--
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
and challenge the unchallengeable.
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