On Feb 2, 10:47 am, "Chuck Gould" wrote:
On Feb 2, 5:17?am, wrote:





1 - Computer caught fire.

2 - Office smoke damage.

3 - Repair office.

4 - Purchase new computer - this time I'm building my own.

5 - Purchase portable computer to use until new computer
arrives.

6 - Use Google groups temporarily - which, by the way,
sucks.

So how's everything been? ?:)

Miss me?

You missed the new guy or gal in the group. He or she popped in when
you popped out. He or she is a real trip; launches a personal attack
troll of a thread and then presumes to bitch about the quality of
content in rec.boats! If you hadn't already gone down prior to this
party's appearance, perhaps your CPU received his or her message,
suffered acid damage to critical insulation, and went up in smoke. :-)

Good luck with the rebuild/new build and welcome back.

Yeah - I saw that.

While not a confession, I am sort-of to blame for that.

Combat Bunny is an old friend/dueler of mine - believe it or not, he's
a
Renaissance man - a real life Jubal Harshaw only with more degrees.
Very
prolilfic author and in real life, very kind and generous with his
time and
knowledge. Does a lot of charity work and pro-bono legal filings for
folks
who can't afford attorneys. He and I first tangled on rec.art.sf
years ago
and eventually it came to a detente' and grew into a friendship. We
go
fishing or have lunch every he rolls into town to visit his elderly
parents.

As it happened we were discussing the state of Usenet in general. I
was
lamenting the lack of quality flames and we started remembering the
old
days and some of the great flame wars and warriors. I mentioned this
newsgroup as being somewhat provincial in that respect (which I have
mentioned in the past) and wouldn't it be fun to set up a false war in
which we could pick on each other.

So not knowing that I was offline, he did it on his own waiting for me
to jump in and really get cranking - it was supposed to be a fun thing
for both of us. Unfortunately, it back fired.

He will appear to apologise under his actual name as soon as he
returns home tomorrow.

If you wish to place blame, blame me.