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  • Re: giganews

    From RonO@21:1/5 to John Harshman on Sun Dec 24 13:34:01 2023
    On 12/24/2023 12:50 PM, John Harshman wrote:
    On 12/24/23 10:09 AM, erik simpson wrote:
    For any interested, giganews loads messages for the last two decades.
    Of possible historical interest.  There were LOTS of cranks around
    back then (Ed Conrad, Pagano, etc).

    And who can forget the late, great Ted Holden?


    When I started reading TO back in 1993 Holden was still taking flak for
    his spilford the bat sig. Some readers were still using 300 BAUD modems
    and they didn't like downloading the sig all the time.

    Ron Okimoto

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  • From *Hemidactylus*@21:1/5 to RonO on Sun Dec 24 19:41:37 2023
    RonO <rokimoto@cox.net> wrote:
    On 12/24/2023 12:50 PM, John Harshman wrote:
    On 12/24/23 10:09 AM, erik simpson wrote:
    For any interested, giganews loads messages for the last two decades.
    Of possible historical interest.  There were LOTS of cranks around
    back then (Ed Conrad, Pagano, etc).

    And who can forget the late, great Ted Holden?


    When I started reading TO back in 1993 Holden was still taking flak for
    his spilford the bat sig. Some readers were still using 300 BAUD modems
    and they didn't like downloading the sig all the time.

    Didn’t someone posting here in the late 90s go by the nym “spilford”? I recall the sig. Holden himself may have pre-dated me.

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  • From *Hemidactylus*@21:1/5 to John Harshman on Sun Dec 24 21:13:03 2023
    John Harshman <john.harshman@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 12/24/23 11:41 AM, *Hemidactylus* wrote:
    RonO <rokimoto@cox.net> wrote:
    On 12/24/2023 12:50 PM, John Harshman wrote:
    On 12/24/23 10:09 AM, erik simpson wrote:
    For any interested, giganews loads messages for the last two decades. >>>>> Of possible historical interest.  There were LOTS of cranks around
    back then (Ed Conrad, Pagano, etc).

    And who can forget the late, great Ted Holden?


    When I started reading TO back in 1993 Holden was still taking flak for
    his spilford the bat sig. Some readers were still using 300 BAUD modems >>> and they didn't like downloading the sig all the time.

    Didn’t someone posting here in the late 90s go by the nym “spilford”? I
    recall the sig. Holden himself may have pre-dated me.

    The bat's name was actually "splifford", and it was a big ASCII bat graphic.

    Thanks for the correction. Was it Pat James that went by splifford? I
    thought somebody did.

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  • From Pro Plyd@21:1/5 to John Harshman on Thu Dec 28 21:31:39 2023
    John Harshman wrote:
    On 12/24/23 10:09 AM, erik simpson wrote:
    For any interested, giganews loads messages for the last two decades. Of
    possible historical interest.  There were LOTS of cranks around back then >> (Ed Conrad, Pagano, etc).

    And who can forget the late, great Ted Holden?


    Wowsers. I'd managed to blot those out of head. You're
    like ripping a scab off a cut ;)

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  • From Bob Casanova@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 29 08:33:05 2023
    On Thu, 28 Dec 2023 21:02:03 -0800, the following appeared
    in talk.origins, posted by John Harshman
    <john.harshman@gmail.com>:

    On 12/28/23 8:31 PM, Pro Plyd wrote:
    John Harshman wrote:
    On 12/24/23 10:09 AM, erik simpson wrote:
    For any interested, giganews loads messages for the last two decades.
    Of possible historical interest. There were LOTS of cranks around
    back then (Ed Conrad, Pagano, etc).

    And who can forget the late, great Ted Holden?


    Wowsers. I'd managed to blot those out of head. You're
    like ripping a scab off a cut ;)

    So I suppose I shouldn't bring up Karl Crawford.

    Karl Crawford (aka "Woodpecker") can't be brought up; he
    exits from the other end.

    --

    Bob C.

    "The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
    the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
    'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

    - Isaac Asimov

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