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I miss my RBP. Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. Are there any
old timers still lurking about? -Dan V. in Indy |
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On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:33:31 -0500, Dan Valleskey
wrote: I miss my RBP. Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. Are there any old timers still lurking about? -Dan V. in Indy Ten years and still reading. But you're right, it's pretty dead. Didn't I see a post from Myron not long ago? I suspect there are a few others who still hope against hope for a live group again. Tom in MD |
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Dan Valleskey wrote:
I miss my RBP. Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. Are there any old timers still lurking about? I miss Scott (ok, I really don't miss him but sometimes he was entertaining with his netwit comments...) -- John Nelson ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chicago Area Paddling/Fishing Page http://www.chicagopaddling.org http://www.chicagofishing.org (A Non-Commercial Web Site: No Sponsors, No Paid Ads and Nothing to Sell) |
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Chicago Paddling-Fishing wrote:
Dan Valleskey wrote: I miss my RBP. Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. Are there any old timers still lurking about? I miss Scott (ok, I really don't miss him but sometimes he was entertaining with his netwit comments...) I had to go look him up for old times sakes... http://groups.google.com/group/rec.b...1b243c8e1f5985 Seems to me he lost the property though and hasn't been back much since... -- John Nelson ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chicago Area Paddling/Fishing Page http://www.chicagopaddling.org http://www.chicagofishing.org (A Non-Commercial Web Site: No Sponsors, No Paid Ads and Nothing to Sell) |
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On Oct 6, 6:33*pm, Dan Valleskey wrote:
I miss my RBP. *Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. *Are there any old timers still lurking about? -Dan V. in Indy not dead exactly but it seems that no one actually talks much in summer and fall. during the winter it seems to pickup a bit. |
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On Oct 7, 10:02*am, wrote:
On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:33:31 -0500, Dan Valleskey wrote: I miss my RBP. *Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. *Are there any old timers still lurking about? -Dan V. in Indy *Ten years and still reading. * But you're right, it's pretty dead. Didn't I see a post from Myron not long ago? * I suspect there are a few others who still hope against hope for a live group again. * Tom in MD Yeah, I posted something as a test balloon, and got no replies. I miss the old rbp also, and I don't find Boatertalk to be a good substitute. Too many folks there...too many 'experts' with a narrow range of experience, and the posting style (content in the header) seems too much like a group SMS-fest. I still have some great stuff to share, if rbp wasn't so dead. Summer of 2006 I ran the first descent of the Delger-Muron river in Outer Mongolia...I owe Canoe&Kayak magazine an article on it, but I never got around to writing it... --riverman |
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On Oct 8, 9:43�am, riverman wrote:
On Oct 7, 10:02�am, wrote: On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:33:31 -0500, Dan Valleskey wrote: I miss my RBP. �Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. �Are there any old timers still lurking about? -Dan V. in Indy �Ten years and still reading. � But you're right, it's pretty dead. Didn't I see a post from Myron not long ago? � I suspect there are a few others who still hope against hope for a live group again. � Tom in MD Yeah, I posted something as a test balloon, and got no replies. I miss the old rbp also, and I don't find Boatertalk to be a good substitute. Too many folks there...too many 'experts' with a narrow range of experience, and the posting style (content in the header) seems too much like a group SMS-fest. I still have some great stuff to share, if rbp wasn't so dead. Summer of 2006 I ran the first descent of the Delger-Muron river in Outer Mongolia...I owe Canoe&Kayak magazine an article on it, but I never got around to writing it... --riverman I still check in regularly, but have moved mostly to Yahoo activity specific groups. Usenet was a great forum in its day, but it has a limited lifetime. Google and Yahoo are working hard to make it go away. Fewer and fewer ISP provide newsgroup access. Blakely --- Blakely LaCroix Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA "The best adventure is yet to come" |
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On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 07:43:02 -0700 (PDT), riverman wrote:
On Oct 7, 10:02*am, wrote: On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:33:31 -0500, Dan Valleskey wrote: I miss my RBP. *Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. *Are there any old timers still lurking about? -Dan V. in Indy *Ten years and still reading. * But you're right, it's pretty dead. Didn't I see a post from Myron not long ago? * I suspect there are a few others who still hope against hope for a live group again. * Tom in MD Yeah, I posted something as a test balloon, and got no replies. I miss the old rbp also, and I don't find Boatertalk to be a good substitute. Too many folks there...too many 'experts' with a narrow range of experience, and the posting style (content in the header) seems too much like a group SMS-fest. I still have some great stuff to share, if rbp wasn't so dead. Summer of 2006 I ran the first descent of the Delger-Muron river in Outer Mongolia...I owe Canoe&Kayak magazine an article on it, but I never got around to writing it... --riverman Terrific! If we've got Riverman back, can Rocky and Oc1canubi be far behind? Always enjoyed reading your stories, Riverman. Most likely have them saved someplace. Tom in MD |
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On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 07:43:02 -0700 (PDT), riverman
wrote: On Oct 7, 10:02*am, wrote: On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:33:31 -0500, Dan Valleskey wrote: I miss my RBP. *Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. *Are there any old timers still lurking about? -Dan V. in Indy *Ten years and still reading. * But you're right, it's pretty dead. Didn't I see a post from Myron not long ago? * I suspect there are a few others who still hope against hope for a live group again. * Tom in MD Yeah, I posted something as a test balloon, and got no replies. I miss the old rbp also, and I don't find Boatertalk to be a good substitute. Too many folks there...too many 'experts' with a narrow range of experience, and the posting style (content in the header) seems too much like a group SMS-fest. I still have some great stuff to share, if rbp wasn't so dead. Summer of 2006 I ran the first descent of the Delger-Muron river in Outer Mongolia...I owe Canoe&Kayak magazine an article on it, but I never got around to writing it... --riverman Last time I was very active I had just sent you a boat. I hope it didn't sink or anything when you put it together, or, if it did you were shallow water at least. Is that thing still floating or has it gone to that great boatyard in the sky? |
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Dan Valleskey wrote:
I miss my RBP. Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. Are there any old timers still lurking about? I check it periodically. Nothing much happening. Steve |
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Steve Cramer wrote:
Dan Valleskey wrote: I miss my RBP. Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. Are there any old timers still lurking about? I check it periodically. Nothing much happening. So, where'd everybody go? It's not like kayaking is less popular than before (just the opposite, IMHO). Is there a web-based watering hole where everybody gathers now? That's what happened to the sailing and skiing newsgroups that I participate in. Where's the rbp web substitute? //Walt |
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Here I am in bored waiting for a call and decide to have a peek at rbp
for the first time in months and what do I find but old familiar friends like Galen and Tom and Myron. I miss the old days of RBP, but like many others I've move on. Moved on a couple of times in fact, first to NPMB and later to P.net. Nowadays though I'm less and less interested in spending time on paddling message boards. But I still miss my old rbp friends. |
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Dan Valleskey wrote:
I miss my RBP. Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. Are there any old timers still lurking about? -Dan V. in Indy Yep Dan, it doesn't look like there's much life left in it... It was good while it lasted though. -- Wilko van den Bergh wilkoa t)dse(d o tnl Eindhoven The Netherlands Europe ---Look at the possibilities, don't worry about the limitations.--- http://kayaker.nl/ |
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Walt wrote:
Steve Cramer wrote: Dan Valleskey wrote: I miss my RBP. Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. Are there any old timers still lurking about? I check it periodically. Nothing much happening. So, where'd everybody go? It's not like kayaking is less popular than before (just the opposite, IMHO). Is there a web-based watering hole where everybody gathers now? That's what happened to the sailing and skiing newsgroups that I participate in. Where's the rbp web substitute? //Walt Looks like there are now a lot of web-based forums that not only cater to specific groups of boaters (fla****er, sea, rodeo, river running etc.), but that are aiming at boaters from individual countries and even regions as well. The greater numer of people online nowadays sure help to make even pretty small forums seem as active as RBP once was. That does come at the price of splitting an international community into such tiny bits that not a lot of folks seem to even know that there are others on boating forums as well any more. The interface of those forums is different and the messages in some forums are dropping off the page quickly. I also find the atmosphere very different from RBP, but that may be due to a greater number of participants influencing it. A good thing is that with many of those forums, there are active admins who can actually do something about most trolls. Still, IMO, they are not a real substitute to the atmosphere of the old RBP community of the middle to late 90's. I will remember that time fondly, and I still am in touch with several friends from back then. Alas, it's no more, and it's time to move on. -- Wilko van den Bergh wilkoa t)dse(d o tnl Eindhoven The Netherlands Europe ---Look at the possibilities, don't worry about the limitations.--- http://kayaker.nl/ |
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On Oct 6, 8:33*pm, Dan Valleskey wrote:
I miss my RBP. *Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. *Are there any old timers still lurking about? -Dan V. in Indy Hi Dan, and all! Yes, there are still a few of us RBP old timers around. Ahhhh, for the heyday of RBP, huh? Scott Bristow (RIP) lending his wise advice, me beating up on Corran Addison for Riot's (IMHO) crappy color selections and goading him into actually molding me a PINK 007 (which I heard he/Riot actually produced, but I unfortunately never got to possess :-( ), and of course the ubiquitous rantings of...who was that (Scott something?) that owned property on and across Boulder Creek, who called me the Ivory Tower Anarchist? Hee hee! I don't get to boat much anymore, what with the price of gasoline and the fact that I'm still trying to fight my way through nursing school after an abrupt segue interruption in my progress to becoming an RN (which I'm still mired in, unfortunately.) I do get up to Indy once a year, for the Indy 500. I've become quite the racefan after inheriting my brother's (RIP) ticket. Email me and maybe we can hook up at the race or the race party some year! :-) John Kuthe... |
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On Oct 16, 9:32*pm, John Kuthe wrote:
On Oct 6, 8:33*pm, Dan Valleskey wrote: I miss my RBP. *Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. *Are there any old timers still lurking about? -Dan V. in Indy Hi Dan, and all! Yes, there are still a few of us RBP old timers around. Ahhhh, for the heyday of RBP, huh? Scott Bristow (RIP) lending his wise advice, me beating up on Corran Addison for Riot's (IMHO) crappy color selections and goading him into actually molding me a PINK 007 (which I heard he/Riot actually produced, but I unfortunately never got to possess :-( ), and of course the ubiquitous rantings of...who was that (Scott something?) that owned property on and across Boulder Creek, who called me the Ivory Tower Anarchist? Hee hee! I don't get to boat much anymore, what with the price of gasoline and the fact that I'm still trying to fight my way through nursing school after an abrupt segue interruption in my progress to becoming an RN (which I'm still mired in, unfortunately.) I do get up to Indy once a year, for the Indy 500. I've become quite the racefan after inheriting my brother's (RIP) ticket. Email me and maybe we can hook up at the race or the race party some year! :-) John Kuthe... Yup! RBP is dead :-( John Kuthe... |
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On Oct 6, 9:33*pm, Dan Valleskey wrote:
I miss my RBP. *Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. *Are there any old timers still lurking about? -Dan V. in Indy Sponsons.... |
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On Oct 21, 10:20*am, wrote:
On Oct 6, 9:33*pm, Dan Valleskey wrote: I miss my RBP. *Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. *Are there any old timers still lurking about? -Dan V. in Indy Sponsons.... *roll eyes* --riverman |
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:49:35 -0700 (PDT), riverman
wrote: On Oct 21, 10:20*am, wrote: On Oct 6, 9:33*pm, Dan Valleskey wrote: I miss my RBP. *Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. *Are there any old timers still lurking about? -Dan V. in Indy Sponsons.... *roll eyes* --riverman Last time I was very active I had just sent you a boat. I hope it didn't sink or anything when you put it together, or, if it did you were shallow water at least. Is that thing still floating or has it gone to that great boatyard in the sky? Galen Hekhuis |
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On Oct 21, 4:50*pm, wrote:
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:20:56 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On Oct 6, 9:33*pm, Dan Valleskey wrote: I miss my RBP. *Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. *Are there any old timers still lurking about? -Dan V. in Indy Sponsons.... Oh, Pleeeeaase. *That you, Rick? * TM.. Yep, 'tis me. What, you don't want to start that thread all over? LOL |
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On Oct 6, 9:33?pm, Dan Valleskey wrote: I miss my RBP. ?Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. ?Are there any old timers still lurking about? -Dan V. in Indy Sponsons.... I dunno, one must say, Tim (I think that's what sp*ns*n boys name was) certainly was dedicated to his cause... Have you been in the cycling forums... Mike Vanderman could be his long lost twin... -- John Nelson ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chicago Area Paddling/Fishing Page http://www.chicagopaddling.org http://www.chicagofishing.org (A Non-Commercial Web Site: No Sponsors, No Paid Ads and Nothing to Sell) |
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On Oct 6, 9:33 pm, Dan Valleskey wrote: I miss my RBP. Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. Are there any old timers still lurking about? -Dan V. in Indy Sponsons.... BurntNjall... -- Wilko van den Bergh wilkoa t)dse(d o tnl Eindhoven The Netherlands Europe ---Look at the possibilities, don't worry about the limitations.--- http://kayaker.nl/ |
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On Oct 21, 10:23*pm, Galen Hekhuis wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:49:35 -0700 (PDT), riverman wrote: On Oct 21, 10:20*am, wrote: On Oct 6, 9:33*pm, Dan Valleskey wrote: I miss my RBP. *Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. *Are there any old timers still lurking about? -Dan V. in Indy Sponsons.... *roll eyes* --riverman Last time I was very active I had just sent you a boat. *I hope it didn't sink or anything when you put it together, or, if it did you were shallow water at least. *Is that thing still floating or has it gone to that great boatyard in the sky? Galen Hekhuis * * * * * * Hey Galen: Nope, last I checked it was still floating high and dry. The intent was to bring it to Hong Kong with me, but once I got here I discovered that what sells as an apartment here would be considered a large closet in the states, so its still sitting in my storage shed in Maine. I take it out each time I'm home in the summer, and I love to tell folks how someone I met on the internet gave it to me (I get a lot of amazed stares for that g). I'm starting to seriously consider having it shipped here and storing it at the school so I can go paddle after work. Age, rust and lethargy are catching up with me, and I need an outlet. If I get over my inane fear of sitting in closed cockpit boats (Wilko can tell you about that), then I'd want to take the 'Galen' out in the open water around the islands here. Thanks again for the boat! :-) --riverman |
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:02:20 -0700 (PDT), riverman
wrote: On Oct 21, 10:23*pm, Galen Hekhuis wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:49:35 -0700 (PDT), riverman wrote: On Oct 21, 10:20*am, wrote: On Oct 6, 9:33*pm, Dan Valleskey wrote: I miss my RBP. *Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. *Are there any old timers still lurking about? -Dan V. in Indy Sponsons.... *roll eyes* --riverman Last time I was very active I had just sent you a boat. *I hope it didn't sink or anything when you put it together, or, if it did you were shallow water at least. *Is that thing still floating or has it gone to that great boatyard in the sky? Galen Hekhuis * * * * * * Hey Galen: Nope, last I checked it was still floating high and dry. The intent was to bring it to Hong Kong with me, but once I got here I discovered that what sells as an apartment here would be considered a large closet in the states, so its still sitting in my storage shed in Maine. I take it out each time I'm home in the summer, and I love to tell folks how someone I met on the internet gave it to me (I get a lot of amazed stares for that g). I'm starting to seriously consider having it shipped here and storing it at the school so I can go paddle after work. Age, rust and lethargy are catching up with me, and I need an outlet. If I get over my inane fear of sitting in closed cockpit boats (Wilko can tell you about that), then I'd want to take the 'Galen' out in the open water around the islands here. Thanks again for the boat! :-) --rivermman That's good to hear, I had visions of it sinking. In a previous life, I owned a 32 foot sloop for which I had purchased an inflatable dinghy. It was a fairly fancy model, complete with a rigid plate for an outboard, "Boston" valves, etc. I got it for emergencies on the boat, but figured it might make a good tender for the sailboat also. I pumped it up and tossed it in the water one day, only to discover that a mouse (or rat, I wasn't there) had chewed into the air compartments. The dinghy didn't exactly sink, as it had three independent air chambers, but the mouse had managed to compromise two of them, so it didn't exactly ride high in the water. I had thought of the same thing happening to the kayak, I'm glad it didn't. |
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On Oct 21, 10:12*pm, Chicago Paddling-Fishing wrote:
wrote: On Oct 6, 9:33?pm, Dan Valleskey wrote: I miss my RBP. ?Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. ?Are there any old timers still lurking about? -Dan V. in Indy Sponsons.... I dunno, one must say, Tim (I think that's what sp*ns*n boys name was) certainly was dedicated to his cause... Have you been in the cycling forums... Mike Vanderman could be his long lost twin... -- John Nelson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------*-- * * * * * * * * * * * Chicago Area Paddling/Fishing Page * * * *http://www.chicagopaddling.org*http:...gofishing..org *(A Non-Commercial Web Site: No Sponsors, No Paid Ads and Nothing to Sell) LOL Mikey is still at it? |
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:34:59 -0700 (PDT),
wrote: On Oct 21, 10:12*pm, Chicago Paddling-Fishing wrote: wrote: On Oct 6, 9:33?pm, Dan Valleskey wrote: I miss my RBP. ?Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. ?Are there any old timers still lurking about? -Dan V. in Indy Sponsons.... I dunno, one must say, Tim (I think that's what sp*ns*n boys name was) certainly was dedicated to his cause... Have you been in the cycling forums... Mike Vanderman could be his long lost twin... -- John Nelson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------*-- * * * * * * * * * * * Chicago Area Paddling/Fishing Page * * * *http://www.chicagopaddling.org*http:...agofishing.org *(A Non-Commercial Web Site: No Sponsors, No Paid Ads and Nothing to Sell) LOL Mikey is still at it? I think he cross-posts. I read rec.backcountry and he rants there a lot. |
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On Oct 23, 12:36*am, Galen Hekhuis wrote:
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:02:20 -0700 (PDT), riverman wrote: On Oct 21, 10:23*pm, Galen Hekhuis wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:49:35 -0700 (PDT), riverman wrote: On Oct 21, 10:20*am, wrote: On Oct 6, 9:33*pm, Dan Valleskey wrote: I miss my RBP. *Okay, maybe I don't miss it all that much. *Are there any old timers still lurking about? -Dan V. in Indy Sponsons.... *roll eyes* --riverman Last time I was very active I had just sent you a boat. *I hope it didn't sink or anything when you put it together, or, if it did you were shallow water at least. *Is that thing still floating or has it gone to that great boatyard in the sky? Galen Hekhuis * * * * * * Hey Galen: Nope, last I checked it was still floating high and dry. The intent was to bring it to Hong Kong with me, but once I got here I discovered that what sells as an apartment here would be considered a large closet in the states, so its still sitting in my storage shed in Maine. I take it out each time I'm home in the summer, and I love to tell folks how someone I met on the internet gave it to me (I get a lot of amazed stares for that g). I'm starting to seriously consider having it shipped here and storing it at the school so I can go paddle after work. Age, rust and lethargy are catching up with me, and I need an outlet. If I get over my inane fear of sitting in closed cockpit boats (Wilko can tell you about that), then I'd want to take the 'Galen' out in the open water around the islands here. Thanks again for the boat! :-) --rivermman That's good to hear, I had visions of it sinking. *In a previous life, I owned a 32 foot sloop for which I had purchased an inflatable dinghy. *It was a fairly fancy model, complete with a rigid plate for an outboard, "Boston" valves, etc. *I got it for emergencies on the boat, but figured it might make a good tender for the sailboat also. I pumped it up and tossed it in the water one day, only to discover that a mouse (or rat, I wasn't there) had chewed into the air compartments. The dinghy didn't exactly sink, as it had three independent air chambers, but the mouse had managed to compromise two of them, so it didn't exactly ride high in the water. *I had thought of the same thing happening to the kayak, I'm glad it didn't.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Oh great. I tell you that I have a fear of closed cockpit boats, that I hope to address this fear by padding out among the islands here in HK in open water, and you tell me that you imagined that this boat would SINK?? Just what I need to worry about! g --riverman (time to buy some floatation....) |
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On Oct 22, 4:21*pm, Wilko wrote:
BurntNjall... I regularly apply my increasing technology skills to Burntball's old posts to try to figure out who he was. His posting history stopped VERY abruptly here and on a pool site...he was mid-argument. His total and sudden disappearance makes me think that something happened to him IRL. Meanwhile, I try searching the traces of his messages, hints and clues in his posts, etc, but never get anywhere. I *did* once track him to a MUD site, and tried to log on to his account with his username to find his personal details, but could not guess his password. The hint was 'what is my hometown', and on rbp once I tried to get some hint from him about that, but he was tight-lipped. I ended up just telling the MUD bot to 'send me my password update' about 50 times. He left rbp less than 24 hours after that...I always secretly hoped that he got weirded out by the emails, maybe realized that he was being stalked, and clammed up. Either way, the effect he had on rbp was very interesting. The only person who seemed unfazed was ratt. In retrospect, I wonder if we'd all deal with him differently...in any case, it sure was strange times.... --riverman |
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:03:21 -0700 (PDT), riverman
wrote: Oh great. I tell you that I have a fear of closed cockpit boats, that I hope to address this fear by padding out among the islands here in HK in open water, and you tell me that you imagined that this boat would SINK?? Just what I need to worry about! g --riverman (time to buy some floatation....) As I recall the thing has internal sp*ns*ns. I think you blow them up to "add to the rigidity" of the boat or somesuch nonsense. The thing is supposed to be pretty unsinkable, but don't take that as a challenge. It also has a really big cockpit, it isn't like a hard shell kayak at all. It also comes with an unconditional guarantee that if you ever lose your life in it they will refund the complete price, no embarrassing questions asked. (You don' need no stinkin' floatation...) |
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riverman wrote:
On Oct 22, 4:21 pm, Wilko wrote: BurntNjall... I regularly apply my increasing technology skills to Burntball's old posts to try to figure out who he was. His posting history stopped VERY abruptly here and on a pool site...he was mid-argument. His total and sudden disappearance makes me think that something happened to him IRL. Meanwhile, I try searching the traces of his messages, hints and clues in his posts, etc, but never get anywhere. I *did* once track him to a MUD site, and tried to log on to his account with his username to find his personal details, but could not guess his password. The hint was 'what is my hometown', and on rbp once I tried to get some hint from him about that, but he was tight-lipped. I ended up just telling the MUD bot to 'send me my password update' about 50 times. He left rbp less than 24 hours after that...I always secretly hoped that he got weirded out by the emails, maybe realized that he was being stalked, and clammed up. Either way, the effect he had on rbp was very interesting. The only person who seemed unfazed was ratt. In retrospect, I wonder if we'd all deal with him differently...in any case, it sure was strange times.... --riverman Since we're talking about how some RBP'ers dealt with the trolls, I know from a well informed source that Timmy the sponsonman didn't like being called every couple of minutes, day after day, especially during the night. Amazing how effective a phone line without number recognition, a simple modem and dial up software can be in this era of fast internet connections. :-) -- Wilko van den Bergh wilkoa t)dse(d o tnl Eindhoven The Netherlands Europe ---Look at the possibilities, don't worry about the limitations.--- http://kayaker.nl/ |
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"riverman" wrote in message ... On Oct 22, 4:21 pm, Wilko wrote: BurntNjall... I regularly apply my increasing technology skills to Burntball's old posts to try to figure out who he was. His posting history stopped VERY abruptly here and on a pool site...he was mid-argument. His total and sudden disappearance makes me think that something happened to him IRL. Meanwhile, I try searching the traces of his messages, hints and clues in his posts, etc, but never get anywhere. I *did* once track him to a MUD site, and tried to log on to his account with his username to find his personal details, but could not guess his password. The hint was 'what is my hometown', and on rbp once I tried to get some hint from him about that, but he was tight-lipped. I ended up just telling the MUD bot to 'send me my password update' about 50 times. He left rbp less than 24 hours after that...I always secretly hoped that he got weirded out by the emails, maybe realized that he was being stalked, and clammed up. Either way, the effect he had on rbp was very interesting. The only person who seemed unfazed was ratt. In retrospect, I wonder if we'd all deal with him differently...in any case, it sure was strange I had remarkable luck with just putting him on ignore...so much so in fact that I'd forgotten about him until you mentioned him. If I wanted amusement, there were always other people's responses to him. Cricket times.... --riverman |
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"Galen Hekhuis" wrote in message ... On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:03:21 -0700 (PDT), riverman wrote: Oh great. I tell you that I have a fear of closed cockpit boats, that I hope to address this fear by padding out among the islands here in HK in open water, and you tell me that you imagined that this boat would SINK?? Just what I need to worry about! g --riverman (time to buy some floatation....) As I recall the thing has internal sp*ns*ns. I think you blow them up to "add to the rigidity" of the boat or somesuch nonsense. The thing is supposed to be pretty unsinkable, but don't take that as a challenge. It also has a really big cockpit, it isn't like a hard shell kayak at all. It also comes with an unconditional guarantee that if you ever lose your life in it they will refund the complete price, no embarrassing questions asked. (You don' need no stinkin' floatation...) Marketing at it's finest... ;D Cricket |
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