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  • Re: [Usenet Improvement Project] Blinky's return?

    From s|b@me@privacy.invalid to news.software.readers on Sat Aug 23 19:58:36 2025
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    On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 10:14:31 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

    After Blinky's death, and to prevent loss of his work, his pages were
    moved to:

    http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/

    Alas, it disappeared from that site. According to web.archive.org, the
    last copy of that web page at that site was from Jan 24, 2025:

    FWIW after his death I used HTTrack to copy both blinky.net as well as improve-usenet.org. I still have them on my hard drive.
    --
    s|b
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  • From snipeco.2@snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) to news.software.readers on Sat Aug 23 21:16:56 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.software.readers

    s|b <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:

    On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 22:44:32 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:

    Thank you again, Ralph. Sadly, that is indeed the confirmation
    that I expected. RIP, Blinky The Shark, an example to us all.

    So someone really sick is impersonating him...

    A guess is that it's one of the alt.usenet.kook crew from way back
    in its gory days before the Novins lawsuit. I have a name but I'd
    better not divulge it in public in case I'm wrong. (email works)
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    ^-^. Sn!pe, PTB, FIBS My pet rock Gordon just is.
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  • From issdr@p_u_n_k_i_n_d@yahoo.it to news.software.readers on Sat Aug 23 23:12:58 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.software.readers

    Sn!pe wrote:

    A guess is that it's one of the alt.usenet.kook crew from way back
    in its gory days before the Novins lawsuit. I have a name but I'd
    better not divulge it in public in case I'm wrong. (email works)

    no way to investigate based on that?

    it's disgusting what they're doing.

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  • From BlinkyTheShark@Blinky@imback.com to news.software.readers on Sun Aug 24 00:14:17 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.software.readers

    On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 23:12:58 +0200, issdr wrote:

    Sn!pe wrote:

    A guess is that it's one of the alt.usenet.kook crew from way back in
    its gory days before the Novins lawsuit. I have a name but I'd better
    not divulge it in public in case I'm wrong. (email works)

    no way to investigate based on that?

    it's disgusting what they're doing.

    Turns out, when I supposedly died alone, forgotten, and unloved by real-
    life people who really knew me, four delusional souls showed up at my
    pitiful funeral. My ex-wife and her brother and two weird and disgusting
    slobs from Usenet.

    That's what I get for being a complete and total asshole and underhandedly devoting all my life and time and efforts to harming new users of Usenet
    who weren't "cool" enough to use a newsreader.

    What a sad motherfucker I really was, looking back. I didn't realize it
    then, because I am slightly mentally retarded, but I was a pretentious, overbearing, ostentatious, acrimonious, virulent prick whose main goal in
    life was to prevent others from enjoying life online in any way possible.
    Why should anyone else be happy if I couldn't be?

    Only on Usenet would people celebrate that type of person and hold him up
    as an everlasting symbol of honorable intentions and pristine values. In retrospect, I was right at home in these bloody, nasty, polluted, foul
    waters of Usenet where a demonic character is celebrated as ethical.
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