....I posted something similar to the rec.arts.comics* groups last
week, and thought I'd post here to see who was still alive out there.
I know Rich Kolker's long since abandoned usenet, but are Meyer and
Boyajian still lurking at least? Or Tim Lynch, for that matter?

....And by "old hands", let me point out that I'm referring to anyone
who's been posting since, say, 1986 and 1992, which were the years I
was most active in the rast* hierarchy. Would be good to see who's
alive out there, natch!

OM
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OM <om@all_trolls_must_DIE.com> writes:

>...I posted something similar to the rec.arts.comics* groups last
>week, and thought I'd post here to see who was still alive out there.
>I know Rich Kolker's long since abandoned usenet, but are Meyer and
>Boyajian still lurking at least? Or Tim Lynch, for that matter?

I'm not an original rast'er. As I understand my backstory
I'm presently a positronic-matrix personality replica within a
protomatter-sustained duplicate clone body under a holographic
projection simulation routine, possibly on an exocomp. I apologize
for any confusion.

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On 6 Jun 2008 16:41:04 -0400, nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:

> I'm not an original rast'er. As I understand my backstory
>I'm presently a positronic-matrix personality replica within a
>protomatter-sustained duplicate clone body under a holographic
>projection simulation routine, possibly on an exocomp. I apologize
>for any confusion.

....You don't count, anyway. You've been battling the Maxson trash,
Brad Guth, and the other trolls over on sci.space.* with me for at
least the past decade :-)

OM
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In the last exciting episode, OM <om@all_trolls_must_DIE.com> wrote:
}...I posted something similar to the rec.arts.comics* groups last
}week, and thought I'd post here to see who was still alive out there.

My FAQ's crontab is alive. I don't post here anymore.

Wait... damn.
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OM wrote:
> ...I posted something similar to the rec.arts.comics* groups last
> week, and thought I'd post here to see who was still alive out there.
> I know Rich Kolker's long since abandoned usenet, but are Meyer and
> Boyajian still lurking at least? Or Tim Lynch, for that matter?
>
> ...And by "old hands", let me point out that I'm referring to anyone
> who's been posting since, say, 1986 and 1992, which were the years I
> was most active in the rast* hierarchy. Would be good to see who's
> alive out there, natch!

I've been in and out for most of the past 18 years since I first go on
the 'Net. Mostly out, since Enterprise was cancelled.

I know my ego would like people to remember me, but whether they
actually do is a different story. :-)

On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:36:58 -0500, OM wrote:

> ...I posted something similar to the rec.arts.comics* groups last
> week, and thought I'd post here to see who was still alive out there.
> I know Rich Kolker's long since abandoned usenet, but are Meyer and
> Boyajian still lurking at least? Or Tim Lynch, for that matter?
>
> ...And by "old hands", let me point out that I'm referring to anyone
> who's been posting since, say, 1986 and 1992, which were the years I
> was most active in the rast* hierarchy. Would be good to see who's
> alive out there, natch!
>
> OM


Tim Lynch! Wow! There's a blast from the past! :) I remember reading his
TNG and DS9 reviews. I used to post on...I don't remember what it was.
bitserve or something like that? I remember larger digests on something
called rasifarian? Anyone remember Lisa the Vampire Slayer?

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:58:09 -0500, Flip Wilson <Rightback@cha.com>
wrote:

>Tim Lynch! Wow! There's a blast from the past! :) I remember reading his
>TNG and DS9 reviews. I used to post on...I don't remember what it was.
>bitserve or something like that? I remember larger digests on something
>called rasifarian? Anyone remember Lisa the Vampire Slayer?

....In order:

1) Yeah, I haven't seen anything regarding Tim in at least a decade.
He holds a special place in Trek fandom as being the guy who basically
exposed Richard Arnold as the "Melakon" to the deteriorating Gene
Roddenberry, as well as being the schmuck who caused quite a few
novels to be rejected for the wrong reasons. If more writers like
Peter David had stood up to him and gone around him directly to Gene
and Majel, they'd have found out sooner just how badly he was
mismanaging the licensing side of Trek.

2) That was LISTSERV, part of BITNET. I remember that fondly,
especially BITNET Relay Chat. BITNET's pretty much been declared
officially dead as of 2007, but it took almost a decade to die out
after CREN dropped their support of it in light of the rise of the
Internet and the Web. I heard something about a "BITNET 2" being
operated, but more as a "hobby" version of BITNET much in the same way
someone would still run a Tandy CoCo or a Sinclair ZX-81 today - just
for the sheer audacity of it!

3) "Lisa the Vampire Slayer"? Not ringing a bell right now. I remember
someone calling herself "Shabang" that did some obnoxious reviews, but
I can't recall if it was on here or rac*. Memory's actually failing me
here on that one...:-(

OM
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OM <om@all_trolls_must_DIE.com> writes:

>1) Yeah, I haven't seen anything regarding Tim in at least a decade.
>He holds a special place in Trek fandom as being the guy who basically
>exposed Richard Arnold as the "Melakon" to the deteriorating Gene
>Roddenberry, as well as being the schmuck who caused quite a few
>novels to be rejected for the wrong reasons. If more writers like
>Peter David had stood up to him and gone around him directly to Gene
>and Majel, they'd have found out sooner just how badly he was
>mismanaging the licensing side of Trek.

On the other hand, surely reducing the speed of Peter David
inflicting novels on the public is a valuable public service. It's
a shame nothing could apparently be done to stop that Lwuxana Troi/Q
thing, for example.

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Some guy names Mohammed found his way onto the bitnet list and got into a
p!ssing match with everyone on the list. That was fun for awhile in the
early 90's. Do you remember that?