On Wednesday, May 12, 2021 at 12:21:43 PM UTC-4, Joie MacDonalds wrote:
> 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.

Parfois tu es un robot!