On 5/12/2021 11:56 AM, Graham wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2021 11:35:13 -0400, Boron Elgar wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 11 May 2021 20:23:27 -0400, jmcquown >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 5/11/2021 7:59 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 11 May 2021 19:45:20 -0400, jmcquown >
>>
>>>> I've no idea at all what happened to Jack, though was never close to
>>>> him at all. 2020 was sad as we lost Margaret. of course.
>>>>
>>> Yes, it was very sad about Margaret but she had stopped posting long
>>> before she died. I don't know what happened to Jack. Maybe Ed knows?
>>>
>>> I found this blast from the past on the RFC Cookin's link:
>>>
>>> http://www.recfoodcooking.org/cookins/show.html?id=7
>>>
>>> There's Jack at a cook-in in San Diego! 1993
>>>
>>> That link shows a lot of the old cook-in photos and who attended.
>>> Really, people travelled all over the country to meet and cook together!
>>>
>>> There are a lot of posters from back in those days who simply dropped
>>> out of sight. Do you remember Dimitri? IIRC he lived in California.
>>> He'd met people at one of the West Coast cookin's from back in the day.
>>> Kay Hartman? Mimi? I'm reaching.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> II would think that the FB RFC group could be a good source of
>> history, with some members knowing the whereabouts of the early Usenet
>> posters. I
>>
>> All Usenet groups evolved as individual group dynamics waxed and
>> waned- FB gave it a run for its money and a final Usenet kick in the
>> face that required no separate newsreader or feed, and had some
>> rather strange moderators who loved to ban those with whom they
>> disagreed. I cannot even say what's what with FB these days, as I have
>> been away from it for 6 or 7 years.
>>
>> I find that reddit is more fun in general.
>
> A large proportion of the UK group moved to FB after some nasty spats among
> members. I joined but within weeks I extricated myself from FB as I found
> it a bloody nuisance. It mined my e-mail contacts and every time someone
> farted and updated their page, I received an e-mail. Of course, FB keeps
> your data and if you are foolish enough to use it, it is back to full
> membership.
> What ****es me off is that there are so many occasions where one is
> expected to be a member to participate in something. Two weeks ago, a
> charity that I support held an online auction using FB. I couldn't
> participate as that would have opened up that FB account.
>
Tu es lâche, et tu as peur.