On Tue, 16 May 2017 20:38:35 +0800, Philip Chee
<phili...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2017-05-15 06:02, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
Philip Chee <phili...@gmail.com> wrote:
Isn't his name Rincewind?
It's not impossible, but it is very unlikely. I've never heard of
anyone with that name, except a fictional character by Pratchett. Nor
does a web search find any real person by that name
It's also very rare for anyone to have just one name. And the
convention in this newsgroup is to give one's first and last name.
Aahz? Graydon? netcat?
Kevrob, in a different part of this thread....
On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 11:33:00 AM UTC-4, Alan Woodford wrote:
On Tue, 16 May 2017 20:38:35 +0800, Philip Chee
<phili...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2017-05-15 06:02, Keith F. Lynch wrote:
Philip Chee <phili...@gmail.com> wrote:
Isn't his name Rincewind?
It's not impossible, but it is very unlikely. I've never heard of anyone with that name, except a fictional character by Pratchett. Nor does a web search find any real person by that name
It's also very rare for anyone to have just one name. And the convention in this newsgroup is to give one's first and last name.
Aahz? Graydon? netcat?Kevrob, in a different part of this thread....
I have, on occasion, posted my full name. My sig has a
first name and initial.
On 2021 Nov 19, Kevrob wrote
(in article<a7551164-f388-433a-a30a-4b8cb1944581n@googlegroups.com>):
On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 11:33:00 AM UTC-4, Alan Woodford wrote:
On Tue, 16 May 2017 20:38:35 +0800, Philip Chee
<phili...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2017-05-15 06:02, Keith F. Lynch wrote:Kevrob, in a different part of this thread....
Philip Chee <phili...@gmail.com> wrote:
Isn't his name Rincewind?
It's not impossible, but it is very unlikely. I've never heard of
anyone with that name, except a fictional character by Pratchett. Nor >> > > > does a web search find any real person by that name
It's also very rare for anyone to have just one name. And the
convention in this newsgroup is to give one's first and last name.
Aahz? Graydon? netcat?
I have, on occasion, posted my full name. My sig has a
first name and initial.
Err... a four-year-old necrothread? Really? Why?
On 5/11/2017 09:09 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
In article <of1p1r$9iv$1...@panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <klu...@panix.com> wrote:
Dorothy J Heydt <djh...@kithrup.com> wrote:
Gary R. Schmidt <grsc...@acm.org> wrote:
On 11/05/2017 13:28, Keith F. Lynch wrote:Um, I took a quick look at the link, and maybe my look was too
ESR says nobody is really transgender.An average programmer and very good self-promoter, rabbiting on about >>>> something which he has no understanding.
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7524
As useful as grease nipples on a goldfish.
Anyone who lives in a world where the pairing of X and Y chromosomes has >>>> a 100% guaranteed end-result on how a person's mind develops *is*
smoking Unicorn farts.
Next he'll be saying that there's no such thing as homosexuality because >>>> XY is always going to be attracted to XX, and vice-versa.
quick, but I couldn't find any poster with the initials ESR. Who
is the person referred to?
Well, the blog being "esr.ibiblio.org," the guy who runs it and the only >> person posting there directly is ESR.
So I'll never know. Thanks anyway.
Seems to be:
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Eric_S._Raymond
On Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 10:45:10 AM UTC-4, Jay wrote:
What has woken this thread up after all this time?
In article <977b0974-18f6-49d8-8c8b-720ef610c01an@googlegroups.com>, petertrei@gmail.com (Peter Trei) wrote:
On Thursday, May 11, 2017 at 10:45:10 AM UTC-4, Jay wrote:
What has woken this thread up after all this time?
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