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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.No. Sorry about unintended confusion. But I THINK his 1st name really was George. Mem fades.Was that Bob George?
As to the Patriots Mailing list anyone remember the infamous Fifi & Mimi episodes? A poster, we'll name him George, accidentally posted on the Mailing List an email to a friend describing the attributes & services of "massage ladies" Fifi & Mimi. Hilarity ensued.
George was thoroughly embarrassed. Then maybe a month or 2 later he made the same mistake again posting the same topic.
Good times!
Steve Jaros or something like that.Ah, alt.sports.football.pro.ne-patriots (hooray for data-entry vet muscle memory, got it out in one try!) I should try to track down the archived posts from the guy who called us all "Hippocrates", or the Rams fan who disagreed with me on the definition of "better team". That's all I've got
Ah, alt.sports.football.pro.ne-patriots (hooray for data-entry vet muscle memory, got it out in one try!) I should try to track down the archived posts from the guy who called us all "Hippocrates", or the Rams fan who disagreed with me on the definition of "better team". That's all I've got
Steve Jaros or something like that.
Regards,
Chris
Still sad about the one great poster who outed himself and never came back.
In the Pats newsgroup one guy took SERIOUS exception to something I'd posted. No clue what it was. Admittedly I was somewhat of a wise ass on line then, but whatever. In any case, he researched me, found out who the CEO of my company was and threatened to call him up and tell my CEO what a "jackass" (polite term) I was.
I'd occasionally play hoops outside at lunch with the manufacturing jocks who loved taking their shots at the head of engineering. Anyhow it reached the point where this guy said he was going to come over at lunch with his buddies and beat the crap out of me. Gotta admit that for a few weeks playing ball I'd scan the parking lot between possessions to see if anyone unknown was headed to our hoops cage.
Just FYI: If the is guy here reading this, it's a crime against the elderly to punch me out now
In the Pats newsgroup one guy took SERIOUS exception to something I'd posted. No clue what it was. Admittedly I was somewhat of a wise ass on line then, but whatever. In any case, he researched me, found out who the CEO of my company was and threatened to call him up and tell my CEO what a "jackass" (polite term) I was.
I'd occasionally play hoops outside at lunch with the manufacturing jocks who loved taking their shots at the head of engineering. Anyhow it reached the point where this guy said he was going to come over at lunch with his buddies and beat the crap out of me. Gotta admit that for a few weeks playing ball I'd scan the parking lot between possessions to see if anyone unknown was headed to our hoops cage.
Just FYI: If the guy is here reading this, it's a crime against the elderly to punch me out now
I think most of us are referring to USENET ( Usenet - Wikipedia ). Most of us would have had access via work or university. A lot of these organizations would create their own internal "forums" for local posts, and would pull in public feeds such as the ones we mention.For my own curiosity, how was one able to post in forums in the late 80's before dial up modems were widely available for consumers ?
Ahh, LISTSERV - Wikipedia and BITNET - Wikipedia for the more IBM-oriented shops. USENET is older, but LISTSERV feels older!College, VT100 terminal, SunOS or VAX, just command line, rn and then tin programs are the 2 ones I remember using.
I can't remember if I did listserv for pats or not. So long ago.
I can't remember the first gui one I used in Windows but you could configure to download the group and do everything offline on a program using dial up. Good stuff.
I think, maybe, that was "SAP Guru" ...... I remember he wanted to fight you at the YCMA. He was good at tracking, if I remember correctly.