In reply to "|--Spike=-" who wrote the following:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 08:58:43 GMT, RIB <rib@rack.com> wrote:
>
> > --------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> > Call me paranoid but I get a bit concerned when people disappear off the
> > radar -
> > even for a short ammount of time. I've been on usenet long enough to know
> > people
> > disappear, without trace, overnight, never to be heard of again.
> >
> > Glad you are still around. I'll take a look at the boats you mention as soon
> > as
> > I've finished here.
> >
> > Later...
> >
> > RIB.
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> The first Usenet group I ever joined was
> 'alt.binaries.warez.ibm-pc.old', thats where I started using the name
> 'Spike' it was one of the regulars that suggested the '|--Spike=-'
> 'design' to keep it personal. I was a member of that group for many
> years, then I had a fallout with NTL and made the mistake of taking on
> an 18 month contract with BT and soon found out that they didn't even
> carry newsgroups. Not knowing about paid for news servers or how it
> all works... I ended up taking a 'forced' 18 month break from Usenet
> because I was stuck with BT.
> When I eventually got back on Usenet and tried re-connecting with the
> 'old' regulars, I was told that most of them had gone 'underground'
> for one reason or another.
> These were people that knew everything about anything to do with
> computers/warez/loopholes in the law and how to stay protected against
> 'the system' yet they had one by one disappeared in the space of 18
> months and have not been heard from since.
> I often wonder where they are now.
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I do remember you telling me a long time ago just to call you Spike. I was
trying to reply to you using your posting name - what a pain :-) Happy days :-)
I do know of one good poster who will stop posting soon. For them to say - not
me.
RIB.
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