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I'm sure that many of you here will remember Blinky the Shark and his
Usenet Improvement Project.
It was my understanding that Blinky died ~15 years ago; is that true?
I ask because somebody claiming to be Blinky has recently appeared.
from a domain registrar). Too bad no one upstanding and trustworthy
grabbed Blinky's content before twovoyagers decided to drop them.
I'm sure that many of you here will remember Blinky the Shark and his
Usenet Improvement Project.
It was my understanding that Blinky died ~15 years ago; is that true?
I ask because somebody claiming to be Blinky has recently appeared.
On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:49:54 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:
I'm sure that many of you here will remember Blinky the Shark and his Usenet Improvement Project.
It was my understanding that Blinky died ~15 years ago; is that true?
I ask because somebody claiming to be Blinky has recently appeared.
FYI, some evidence from 2009
1. <https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/30863813>
2. <https://groups.google.com/g/alt.comp.freeware/c/_de0Ex4PpJ0/m/tmp3Cpp5NbcJ>
3. <https://groups.google.com/g/news.software.readers/c/78M6SnIGUW4/m/PmcBsLQhuh4J>
4. <https://groups.google.com/g/news.software.readers/c/ryggoyeh--A/m/aq_EAVD7MaoJ>
5. <https://groups.google.com/g/news.software.readers/c/K8W9cZb-D8A/m/KFvwHZsPNbgJ>
6. <https://groups.google.com/g/news.software.readers/c/AUc4xCcoq0A/m/OvTm5dVHs28J>
VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> posted:
from a domain registrar). Too bad no one upstanding and trustworthy
grabbed Blinky's content before twovoyagers decided to drop them.
It mostly seems to be just slagging off Google Groups as an interface to Usenet, which is only of historical significance now.
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.