[M] Hippo Birdbath...

[Nigel Stapley]

...or '30 Years On'.

I don't suppose anyone else will notice that afp is 30 today, but the
few of us who are left should mark the occasion.

I wasn't here for the beginning, only joining in the summer of 2001
(with my delurking post coming in the September or October of that
year), but the froup still had so many posts in a day that judicious use
of the 'Mark thread as read' function was the only way to keep up with it.

Now, we're lucky to get that many posts in a *year*. Egg tempera, o Maurice!

So here's to those who were seeming fixtures in the firmament of afp in
my time but who are no longer to be seen here (to name but a few): Lisa,
Dave (take your pick as to which one), Gary, Lesley, elfin & esmi,
Melody, Eric, Aelc, April, the Various Brians, Elin, Jon, Kimberley,
Leo, Marco & Orjan, Mary, Sanity, Sofia, Stacie, Sylvain, Kyle, Colette
and everyone else at the H.P. Lovecraft Holiday Fun Club.

(Some of these have moved on to what is sardonically referred to as
'social media', but as I don't to Fscksake, ***@ter or Witsuck, I haven't
seen them for a long time).

To the few of us who are left like erratics on a glacial flood plain:
Paul, ppint. grizz, steveski, Lewis...

And here's to the memory of those who have passed to where it is
Eternally September: Antti, Carrie, Joy, Elliott, Mike, Rocky and of
course, the OFIAH, without whom...

Ah, Où sont les vampire threads d'antan?
--
Regards

Nigel Stapley

www.thejudge.me.uk

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[Matthieu Weber]

Le Mon, 31 Jan 2022 12:37:16 +0000, Nigel Stapley

Post by Nigel Stapley
...or '30 Years On'.
I don't suppose anyone else will notice that afp is 30 today, but the
few of us who are left should mark the occasion.
I wasn't here for the beginning, only joining in the summer of 2001
(with my delurking post coming in the September or October of that
year), but the froup still had so many posts in a day that judicious use
of the 'Mark thread as read' function was the only way to keep up with it.

I started lurking afp only a year ago (I'm the opposite of an early
adopter, I know), but I remember a time (in the late nineties, early
noughties) on a French linux newsroup where the traffic was indeed quite
intense. I was about to write that linux is a topic far away from that
of afp, but then I remembered Going Postal :)

Post by Nigel Stapley
Now, we're lucky to get that many posts in a *year*. Egg tempera, o Maurice!

And the same happens on said linux newsgroup.

Post by Nigel Stapley
Ah, Où sont les vampire threads d'antan?

On said social media maybe? Apparently Reddit has become the successor
of usenet in terms of variety of topics and helpful people (regarding
technical stuff, at least), except that it's Web based, centralized and
proprietary, three things I don't enjoy.

Matthieu

[Kerr-Mudd, John]

On 31 Jan 2022 13:16:22 GMT

Post by Matthieu Weber
Le Mon, 31 Jan 2022 12:37:16 +0000, Nigel Stapley

Post by Nigel Stapley
...or '30 Years On'.
I don't suppose anyone else will notice that afp is 30 today, but the
few of us who are left should mark the occasion.
I wasn't here for the beginning, only joining in the summer of 2001
(with my delurking post coming in the September or October of that
year), but the froup still had so many posts in a day that judicious use
of the 'Mark thread as read' function was the only way to keep up with it.

I started lurking afp only a year ago (I'm the opposite of an early
adopter, I know), but I remember a time (in the late nineties, early
noughties) on a French linux newsroup where the traffic was indeed quite
intense. I was about to write that linux is a topic far away from that
of afp, but then I remembered Going Postal :)

Post by Nigel Stapley
Now, we're lucky to get that many posts in a *year*. Egg tempera, o Maurice!

And the same happens on said linux newsgroup.

Post by Nigel Stapley
Ah, Où sont les vampire threads d'antan?

On said social media maybe? Apparently Reddit has become the successor
of usenet in terms of variety of topics and helpful people (regarding
technical stuff, at least), except that it's Web based, centralized and
proprietary, three things I don't enjoy.
Matthieu
--
The only legitimate use of the greatly loathed <BLINK> tag.
Schroedinger's Cat is <BLINK>NOT</BLINK> dead.

Ah, nostalgia.


I never 'got' the Jewish? ferret thing.

Also another froup, (afda) where they seemed to want to re-type the H2G2 radio scripts - I really couldn't see the point.

[Matthieu Weber]

Post by Kerr-Mudd, John
On 31 Jan 2022 13:16:22 GMT

Post by Matthieu Weber
Le Mon, 31 Jan 2022 12:37:16 +0000, Nigel Stapley

Post by Nigel Stapley
...or '30 Years On'.
I don't suppose anyone else will notice that afp is 30 today, but the
few of us who are left should mark the occasion.
I wasn't here for the beginning, only joining in the summer of 2001
(with my delurking post coming in the September or October of that
year), but the froup still had so many posts in a day that judicious use
of the 'Mark thread as read' function was the only way to keep up with it.

I started lurking afp only a year ago (I'm the opposite of an early
adopter, I know), but I remember a time (in the late nineties, early
noughties) on a French linux newsroup where the traffic was indeed quite
intense. I was about to write that linux is a topic far away from that
of afp, but then I remembered Going Postal :)

Post by Nigel Stapley
Now, we're lucky to get that many posts in a *year*. Egg tempera, o Maurice!

And the same happens on said linux newsgroup.

Post by Nigel Stapley
Ah, Où sont les vampire threads d'antan?

On said social media maybe? Apparently Reddit has become the successor
of usenet in terms of variety of topics and helpful people (regarding
technical stuff, at least), except that it's Web based, centralized and
proprietary, three things I don't enjoy.

Ah, nostalgia.
I never 'got' the Jewish? ferret thing.
Also another froup, (afda) where they seemed to want to re-type the
H2G2 radio scripts - I really couldn't see the point.

Too much free time on their hands? It's either that or spray-paint the
nearest bus stop (there is obviously no possible middle ground), so I
prefer they do the script typing thing.

Matthieu

[James Kuyper]

Post by Matthieu Weber
--
The only legitimate use of the greatly loathed <BLINK> tag.
Schroedinger's Cat is <BLINK>NOT</BLINK> dead.

Amy Pond is <BLINK>NOT</BLINK> pregnant.

[Matthieu Weber]

Le Tue, 1 Feb 2022 10:56:33 -0500, James Kuyper

Post by James Kuyper

Post by Matthieu Weber
--
The only legitimate use of the greatly loathed <BLINK> tag.
Schroedinger's Cat is <BLINK>NOT</BLINK> dead.

Amy Pond is <BLINK>NOT</BLINK> pregnant.

I agree, that would be another legitimate use of that tag. But in my
defence, I started to use this signature several years before the world
had ever heard of Amy Pond. And being a man of habit, I have never
changed it since.

Matthieu

[Steveski]

Post by Nigel Stapley
...or '30 Years On'.
I don't suppose anyone else will notice that afp is 30 today, but the
few of us who are left should mark the occasion.
I wasn't here for the beginning, only joining in the summer of 2001
(with my delurking post coming in the September or October of that
year), but the froup still had so many posts in a day that judicious use
of the 'Mark thread as read' function was the only way to keep up with it.
Now, we're lucky to get that many posts in a *year*. Egg tempera, o Maurice!
So here's to those who were seeming fixtures in the firmament of afp in
my time but who are no longer to be seen here (to name but a few): Lisa,
Dave (take your pick as to which one), Gary, Lesley, elfin & esmi,
Melody, Eric, Aelc, April, the Various Brians, Elin, Jon, Kimberley,
Leo, Marco & Orjan, Mary, Sanity, Sofia, Stacie, Sylvain, Kyle, Colette
and everyone else at the H.P. Lovecraft Holiday Fun Club.
(Some of these have moved on to what is sardonically referred to as
seen them for a long time).
Paul, ppint. grizz, steveski, Lewis...
And here's to the memory of those who have passed to where it is
Eternally September: Antti, Carrie, Joy, Elliott, Mike, Rocky and of
course, the OFIAH, without whom...
Ah, Où sont les vampire threads d'antan?

Fair enough - I am pretty erratic. [1]

[Nigel Stapley]

Post by Steveski

Post by Nigel Stapley
...or '30 Years On'.
I don't suppose anyone else will notice that afp is 30 today, but the
few of us who are left should mark the occasion.
I wasn't here for the beginning, only joining in the summer of 2001
(with my delurking post coming in the September or October of that
year), but the froup still had so many posts in a day that judicious
use of the 'Mark thread as read' function was the only way to keep up
with it.
Now, we're lucky to get that many posts in a *year*. Egg tempera, o Maurice!
So here's to those who were seeming fixtures in the firmament of afp
Lisa, Dave (take your pick as to which one), Gary, Lesley, elfin &
esmi, Melody, Eric, Aelc, April, the Various Brians, Elin, Jon,
Kimberley, Leo, Marco & Orjan, Mary, Sanity, Sofia, Stacie, Sylvain,
Kyle, Colette and everyone else at the H.P. Lovecraft Holiday Fun Club.
(Some of these have moved on to what is sardonically referred to as
haven't seen them for a long time).
Paul, ppint. grizz, steveski, Lewis...
And here's to the memory of those who have passed to where it is
Eternally September: Antti, Carrie, Joy, Elliott, Mike, Rocky and of
course, the OFIAH, without whom...
Ah, Où sont les vampire threads d'antan?

Fair enough - I am pretty erratic. [1]

Just to check that I'd remembered my O-level Geography, I searched for
the term using the phrase "Erratic Geography". I then realised that I'd
just created a new department at UU.
--
Regards

Nigel Stapley

www.thejudge.me.uk

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Post by Nigel Stapley
I don't suppose anyone else will notice that afp is 30 today, but the
few of us who are left should mark the occasion.
I wasn't here for the beginning, only joining in the summer of 2001
(with my delurking post coming in the September or October of that
year), but the froup still had so many posts in a day that judicious
use of the 'Mark thread as read' function was the only way to keep up
with it.
Now, we're lucky to get that many posts in a *year*. Egg tempera, o Maurice!
So here's to those [...]

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Post by Steveski

Post by Nigel Stapley
Paul, ppint. grizz, steveski, Lewis...
And here's to the memory of those who have passed to where it is
Eternally September: Antti, Carrie, Joy, Elliott, Mike, Rocky and of
course, the OFIAH, without whom...
Ah, Où sont les vampire threads d'antan?

Fair enough - I am pretty erratic. [1]

Just to check that I'd remembered my O-level Geography, I searched for
the term using the phrase "Erratic Geography". I then realised that I'd
just created a new department at UU.

- and a pretty good department too - worthy of an entire round of its own
in richard osman's house of games, is erratic geography, as well as being
home to all the wandering isles of yesteryear, carefully distinguished on
reputable cartographic renderings or representations of this planet's
surface by the postscript, ''e.d.''

- love, ppint.

[Brian Howlett]

On 31 Jan, Nigel Stapley <***@judgemental.plus.com> wrote:

As one of

Post by Nigel Stapley
the Various Brians

I'm still around.

Good sigmonster!

[Dan Howell]

<glug>

Post by Brian Howlett
As one of

Post by Nigel Stapley
the Various Brians

I'm still around.
Good sigmonster!
--
Brian Howlett - Email to From: address deleted unseen
-----------------------------------------------------
"Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage"
The Famous Gaspode, Men at Arms, Terry Pratchett

[Paul .Jamison]

I'm still here, as well. I can remember how heavy the traffic was in the day. There used to be a database of AFPers and their birthdays. I inherited the list and took over marking birthdays on semi-monthly - then monthly - basis, in my own unique way (the "Jewish ferret thing").

I haven't celebrated birthdays here in years - most of the people are no longer here, so there's not much point. I miss those days.

So. To those who have gone and to those who remain - it's been quite a trip.

[Matthieu Weber]

Le Mon, 31 Jan 2022 23:27:00 -0800 (PST), Paul .Jamison

Post by Paul .Jamison
I'm still here, as well. I can remember how heavy the traffic was in
the day. There used to be a database of AFPers and their birthdays. I
inherited the list and took over marking birthdays on semi-monthly -
then monthly - basis, in my own unique way (the "Jewish ferret
thing").

As I am late to this party, would anyone be so kind as to describe this
“Jewish ferret thing”?

Matthieu

[Paul .Jamison]

Post by Matthieu Weber
Le Mon, 31 Jan 2022 23:27:00 -0800 (PST), Paul .Jamison

Post by Paul .Jamison
I'm still here, as well. I can remember how heavy the traffic was in
the day. There used to be a database of AFPers and their birthdays. I
inherited the list and took over marking birthdays on semi-monthly -
then monthly - basis, in my own unique way (the "Jewish ferret
thing").

As I am late to this party, would anyone be so kind as to describe this
“Jewish ferret thing”?
Matthieu
--
The only legitimate use of the greatly loathed <BLINK> tag.
Schroedinger's Cat is <BLINK>NOT</BLINK> dead.

One of the make-believe ferret characters I created, who participated in the many birthday salutes I used to publish, was Rabbi Sammy. A favorite character of mine, actually.

[Matthieu Weber]

Le Tue, 1 Feb 2022 20:41:30 -0800 (PST), Paul .Jamison

Post by Paul .Jamison

Post by Matthieu Weber
Le Mon, 31 Jan 2022 23:27:00 -0800 (PST), Paul .Jamison

Post by Paul .Jamison
I'm still here, as well. I can remember how heavy the traffic was in
the day. There used to be a database of AFPers and their birthdays. I
inherited the list and took over marking birthdays on semi-monthly -
then monthly - basis, in my own unique way (the "Jewish ferret
thing").

As I am late to this party, would anyone be so kind as to describe this
“Jewish ferret thing”?

One of the make-believe ferret characters I created, who participated
in the many birthday salutes I used to publish, was Rabbi Sammy. A
favorite character of mine, actually.

Thank you for taking the time to enlighten me :)

Matthieu

[Lewis]

Post by Paul .Jamison
One of the make-believe ferret characters I created, who participated
in the many birthday salutes I used to publish, was Rabbi Sammy. A
favorite character of mine, actually.

What a minute, what do you mean MAKE-BELIEVE?

[Paul .Jamison]

Post by Lewis

Post by Paul .Jamison
One of the make-believe ferret characters I created, who participated
in the many birthday salutes I used to publish, was Rabbi Sammy. A
favorite character of mine, actually.

What a minute, what do you mean MAKE-BELIEVE?

Well, I made the Ferret Crew up. At least I think I did. It's entirely possible that, in another reality, these weasels are reading what I'm saying and laughing their furry tails off.

Post by Lewis
--
It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It
said the universe had done all it could, but you were still
alive.

[Lewis]

Post by Paul .Jamison

Post by Lewis

Post by Paul .Jamison
One of the make-believe ferret characters I created, who participated
in the many birthday salutes I used to publish, was Rabbi Sammy. A
favorite character of mine, actually.

What a minute, what do you mean MAKE-BELIEVE?

Well, I made the Ferret Crew up. At least I think I did. It's entirely possible that, in another reality, these weasels are reading what I'm saying and laughing their furry tails off.

My world is askew!

:)

[Nigel Stapley]

Post by Paul .Jamison
I'm still here, as well. I can remember how heavy the traffic was in the day. There used to be a database of AFPers and their birthdays. I inherited the list and took over marking birthdays on semi-monthly - then monthly - basis, in my own unique way (the "Jewish ferret thing").

And I *still* can't see a ferret IRL without wondering where he's left
his yarmulke.
--
Regards

Nigel Stapley

www.thejudge.me.uk

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