[OT] :cough:
Geof F. Morris
Sad to me that in perusing the list of topic starters in my NNTP feed,
the only name I recognized was Fred J. McCall. Hell, Fred may still
have me killfiled.
:wave:
GFM <-- recently lured back onto Usenet, thought he'd drop anchor for a spell.
Grey Satterfield
What a nice surprise to have Geof back! Welcome [back] to the jungle!
Grey Satterfield
Paul H. Lemmen
Good to see you again Geof. Missed you the few times I have been able
to wade through the k00ks and nutters.
--
Paul H. Lemmen
Geof F. Morris
<grey.sat...@oscn.net> said:
> What a nice surprise to have Geof back! Welcome [back] to the jungle!
Your name is a sight for sore eyes, Grey. :)
I'm back. Don't know for how long. Depends on if I get burned at the
stake for not having read any of Clancy after ... oh, crap. It's been
so long, I don't even remember what book it was anymore.
GFM
Geof F. Morris
> Good to see you again Geof. Missed you the few times I have been able
> to wade through the k00ks and nutters.
Boy, 9/11 sure made this place go south, didn't it?
GFM
Grey Satterfield
"Geof F. Morris" <gfmo...@gfmorris.net> wrote:
Nah, the main problem has been TC's failure to produce a new book, it seems
to me.
Grey Satterfield
Jim Rusling
Same here, I have just about given up on this group. I sure will be
glad when Agent gets ignore sub-thread.
--
Jim Rusling
More or Less Retired
Mustang, OK
http://www.rusling.org
Geof F. Morris
<grey.sat...@oscn.net> said:
> On 12/30/05 7:37 PM, in article 2005123019374175249-gfmorris@gfmorrisnet,
> "Geof F. Morris" <gfmo...@gfmorris.net> wrote:
>
>> On 2005-12-30 18:53:22 -0600, "Paul H. Lemmen" <ple...@member.afa.org> said:
>>
>>> Good to see you again Geof. Missed you the few times I have been able
>>> to wade through the k00ks and nutters.
>>
>> Boy, 9/11 sure made this place go south, didn't it?
>
> Nah, the main problem has been TC's failure to produce a new book, it seems
> to me.
Ah well, I remember that causing an issue. It's dangerous to put this
many smartassed carnivores in one room and not give them raw meat to
chew on ... eventually, they decide that the other guy looks kinda
tasty.
[And hey, I said that while pointing lots of fingers at myself.
Remember, OJ3 used to call me Post-a-Minute Morris, with due
justification.]
GFM <-- "Mama always said it was better to be a smartass than a dumbass."
Geof F. Morris
> "Paul H. Lemmen" <ple...@member.afa.org> wrote:
>
>> Good to see you again Geof. Missed you the few times I have been able
>> to wade through the k00ks and nutters.
>
> Same here, I have just about given up on this group. I sure will be
> glad when Agent gets ignore sub-thread.
Hell, I'll be happy when Panic realizes that people use Usenet for
other things besides filesharing and actually gives us, you know,
thread killing.
[C'mon, folks ... it's not that hard to kill when you have parent IDs.]
GFM
Fred J. McCall
: Hey, how did I end up here?
:
: Sad to me that in perusing the list of topic starters in my NNTP feed,
:the only name I recognized was Fred J. McCall. Hell, Fred may still
:have me killfiled.
:
: :wave:
Nope. Most folks in mine expire in relatively short order, Geof.
There are those, though, who get the 'until 30 days after they stop
posting' routine.
: GFM <-- recently lured back onto Usenet, thought he'd drop anchor for a spell.
It's a much different place, unfortunately, given all the blatant
crossposting.
--
"It's always different. It's always complex. But at some point,
somebody has to draw the line. And that somebody is always me....
I am the law."
-- Buffy, The Vampire Slayer
Geof F. Morris
> Nope. Most folks in mine expire in relatively short order, Geof.
> There are those, though, who get the 'until 30 days after they stop
> posting' routine.
I really was pretty sure you had me kf'd though. ;)
Bet you love the new NASA Administrator and his desire to kill STS and
ISS even more than I do. ;)
GFM
Fred J. McCall
I just wish we'd killed ISS before all that money got spent on it.
--
"Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."
-- Charles Pinckney
Geof F. Morris
> I just wish we'd killed ISS before all that money got spent on it.
Ehhh, it was all politics. There's some neat engineering that's been
done on it---I've been involved with some of the builds---but it mostly
went after the reusable philosophy, and I've certainly come around to
believing in expendable launch vehicles.
GFM
Fred J. McCall
And that's really been the problem with it. Well, that and the cost
growth of over an order of magnitude. Now it's no sooner going to be
finished than some parts are getting old and we'll essentially be
abandoning it.
I don't know about being a fan of expendables, per se, but if we're
going to build reusable launchers they DEFINITELY need duty cycles a
lot more like aircraft. We don't need another 'rebuildable' like the
Shuttle. A pity they didn't spend the extra money and pursue the
original concept for that.
--
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,
all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
--George Bernard Shaw
Loki
> GFM
Ok, so how do I get Agent to let Fred out of my killfile? He's in
there by accident and now I can't find the magic key to let him out...
Loki
Grey Satterfield
"Loki" <docs...@aol.com> wrote:
Because I have a Mac, I use MS Entourage, which is an OS X app that is sorta
kinda like Outlook but is also different. Entourage's ability to filter
Usenet posts is so impenetrable, that I have long handled *PLONK*s manually.
It's ugly but it works -- especially when I decide to un-*PLONK* somebody.
:>)
Grey Satterfield
Jim Rusling
Go to tools, filters or usenet filters, I don't remember for sure.
Then select the filter on fred. Right click and select delete.
Ceri.jones
news:kq8gr1hkns8bm25dh...@4ax.com...
> Ok, so how do I get Agent to let Fred out of my killfile? He's in
> there by accident and now I can't find the magic key to let him out...
>
Don't worry, he's busted out on his own and was last seen climbing the
Empire State building........ :-)
--
The welfare of the people is the highest law.
Nohbody
On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 18:46:56 GMT, Loki <docs...@aol.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 03:26:19 -0600, Geof F. Morris
> <gfmo...@gfmorris.net> wrote:
>
> >On 2005-12-30 23:18:15 -0600, Fred J. McCall <fmc...@earthlink.net> said:
> >
> >> I just wish we'd killed ISS before all that money got spent on it.
> >
> > Ehhh, it was all politics. There's some neat engineering that's been
> >done on it---I've been involved with some of the builds---but it mostly
> >went after the reusable philosophy, and I've certainly come around to
> >believing in expendable launch vehicles.
>
> Ok, so how do I get Agent to let Fred out of my killfile? He's in
> there by accident and now I can't find the magic key to let him out...
For Agent 2.0, look for "View Usenet Filters" or somesuch, under the
Window menu, and once it's open highlight the relevant entry and delete
it (delete key or right-click context menu).
Dan Poore
--
About the only difference between the wingnuts on each end of the
[political] spectrum is *which* civil right(s) they think we can do
without. -- Rowan Hawthorn, in alt.callahans (2/28/05)
cMAD
> Ok, so how do I get Agent to let Fred out of my killfile? He's in
> there by accident and now I can't find the magic key to let him out...
I think the term in this case is not "accident", but "serendipity" ...
cMAD
Fred J. McCall
In your case, the whole applicable term would seem to be the single
syllable from your description - "dip", which you are.
--
"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar
territory."
--G. Behn
Howard C. Berkowitz
<gfmo...@gfmorris.net> wrote:
Hey there! I'm afraid most of my Usenet activity has migrated to
us.military.army, alt.fan.heinlein, rec.pets.cats.anecdotes and, to
some extent, sci.military.naval. There just hasn't been that much in
Clancyspace, but perhaps you are an omen.