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.

Duh. If you don't have a telephone, you can't make a phone call.

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