ping richard heathfield
jacob navia
On Sep 17, 10:27 am, tea party <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
> > since the death of Richard HeathField there is noone
[snip]
The last message Mr Heathfield posted here was on July 10th. It is
strange. Anyone knows anything about him?
jacob
Vincenzo Mercuri
Actually the last one was on July 31st.
But this doesn't change anything. I hope that "tea party" just refers
to his absence from Usenet. There is no reason why a troll should know
about Richard Heathfield more than anyone else.
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Non puoi insegnare qualcosa ad un uomo. You cannot teach a man anything.
Lo puoi solo aiutare -- Galileo Galilei -- You can only help him
a scoprirla dentro di sé. discover it in himself.
Vincenzo Mercuri
Kenneth Brody
> jacob navia wrote:
>> The troll "tea party" said that R.H. is dead...
>>
>> On Sep 17, 10:27 am, tea party <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
>> > > since the death of Richard HeathField there is noone
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>
>> The last message Mr Heathfield posted here was on July 10th. It is
>> strange. Anyone knows anything about him?
>
>
> Actually the last one was on July 31st.
> But this doesn't change anything. I hope that "tea party" just refers
> to his absence from Usenet. There is no reason why a troll should know
> about Richard Heathfield more than anyone else.
Maybe Spinoza got a restraining order? :-)
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Kenneth Brody
Vincenzo Mercuri
who knows... :-)
Mark Bluemel
> Kenneth Brody wrote:
>> On 9/17/2010 9:55 AM, Vincenzo Mercuri wrote:
>
>>> Actually the last one was on July 31st.
>>> But this doesn't change anything. I hope that "tea party" just refers
>>> to his absence from Usenet. There is no reason why a troll should know
>>> about Richard Heathfield more than anyone else.
>>
>> Maybe Spinoza got a restraining order? :-)
>
> who knows... :-)
>
Chris H
Mercuri <vincenzo...@yahoo.it> writes
>jacob navia wrote:
>> The troll "tea party" said that R.H. is dead...
>>
>> On Sep 17, 10:27 am, tea party <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
>> > > since the death of Richard HeathField there is noone
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> The last message Mr Heathfield posted here was on July 10th. It is
>> strange. Anyone knows anything about him?
>
>Actually the last one was on July 31st.
>But this doesn't change anything. I hope that "tea party" just refers
>to his absence from Usenet. There is no reason why a troll should know
>about Richard Heathfield more than anyone else.
It is quite possible that he finally could not see the point of
contributing to the group. More important things in life and all that.
Recently I trimmed over half the groups I had (without looking back or
saying goodbye) and only scan most of those left rather than contribute.
In general Usenet is dying.
ISP's have stopped carrying it.
There is a lot more spam on it.
There are a lot more idiots (with bad manners).
In the last 5 years "everyone" has set up his own web forum and blog.
Many new internet users have no idea what Usenet is. (Many use Google
or Yahoo instead. )
Many of the older "gurus" and "experts" are growing (old and )weary and
dropping off groups because of the spam, trolls and idiots. Some of us
can remember life before the September that Never Ended. (Though in
theory it ended on January 25, 2005 )
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Keith Thompson
I received an e-mail message from him today, sent early this
morning UK time. He's fine, he's just taking a break from Usenet
(from which he may or may not choose to return).
As for this "tea party" character, I won't waste my contempt on
the likes of him.
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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) ks...@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Nokia
"We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"
Ersek, Laszlo
> jacob navia <ja...@spamsink.net> writes:
>>
>> The last message Mr Heathfield posted here was on July 10th. It is
>> strange. Anyone knows anything about him?
>
> I received an e-mail message from him today, sent early this morning UK
> time.
Thank you.
> He's fine, he's just taking a break from Usenet (from which he may or
> may not choose to return).
I miss his posts.
Cheers,
lacos
Rui Maciel
> I received an e-mail message from him today, sent early this
> morning UK time. He's fine, he's just taking a break from Usenet
> (from which he may or may not choose to return).
I hope the break he is taking is temporary. His contributions to this newsgroup are invaluable.
Rui Maciel
Kenny McCormack
Yes - in the sense on "not valuable".
--
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is
no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith -
James Harris
Absence makes the heart grow fonder and, apparently, elicits
compliments that would not be forthcoming in the normal scheme of
things.
It's good to know he's OK.
James
Uno
I'm sure he enjoys your fawning. There's lots about Richard to miss,
but I'd rather not have more English Topic Fundamentalists around.
--
Uno
Malcolm McLean
>
> > The last message Mr Heathfield posted here was on July 10th. It is
> > strange. Anyone knows anything about him?
>
> I received an e-mail message from him today, sent early this
> morning UK time. He's fine, he's just taking a break from Usenet
> (from which he may or may not choose to return).
>
I spent all day wondering if Heathfield had died. Thank goodness he
hasn't.
People should sometimes engage brian before posting.
jacob navia
Look, it seemed to me strange that Mr Heathfield did not post anything
here since more than a months. It is normal to ask isn't it?
Even if we disagree in many issues it is another thing that a regular
contributor just disappears without anyone even noticing it.
I couldn't figure out that Yom Kippur is today...
jacob
Malcolm McLean
>
> Look, it seemed to me strange that Mr Heathfield did not post anything
> here since more than a months. It is normal to ask isn't it?
>
> Even if we disagree in many issues it is another thing that a regular
> contributor just disappears without anyone even noticing it.
>
> I couldn't figure out that Yom Kippur is today...
>
tone, I suspected that he was being facetious, but one can't be sure.
Since Yom Kippur was starting and everything here in Israel shuts
down, I couldn't check for a whole day, which I spent worrying.
Joe Wright
[ snip ]
>
> I couldn't figure out that Yom Kippur is today...
>
> jacob
Not today surely. Yom Kippur began Friday at sundown until Saturday sundown.
--
Joe Wright
"If you rob Peter to pay Paul you can depend on the support of Paul."
Keith Thompson
I believe Malcolm's scorn was directed at the "tea party" troll, not
at you. Nobody was criticizing your original article. Personally,
jacob, I found it quite thoughtful.
Kenneth Brody
> In article<4c93b691$0$9525$a729...@news.telepac.pt>,
> Rui Maciel<rui.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Keith Thompson wrote:
>>
>>> I received an e-mail message from him today, sent early this
>>> morning UK time. He's fine, he's just taking a break from Usenet
>>> (from which he may or may not choose to return).
>>
>> I hope the break he is taking is temporary. His contributions to this
>> newsgroup are invaluable.
>
> Yes - in the sense on "not valuable".
Just as something that's "inflammable" is "not flammable". :-)
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Kenneth Brody
Kenneth Brody
[...]
> Yesterday was Yom Kippur, and I was unable to access the computer.
May your fopen("BookOfLife.dat","rb+") succeed, and your fwrite()'s never fail.
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Kenneth Brody
Malcolm McLean
Kenneth Brody
I debated with myself before deciding ".dat" over ".txt", and decided that
an indexed file makes more sense than fixed-length text fields. Sure, back
when the entire book could fit on a couple of pages, all text made sense.
But after 6000 years, even the book of life can get a few upgrades.
--
Kenneth Brody