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

    From Peter J Ross@pjr@example.invalid to news.software.readers on Sun Dec 21 19:45:30 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.software.readers

    On 2025-08-23, Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote:

    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)

    Steve "BowTie" Young is the name that first comes to mind. He was not a kookologist but a winner of multiple kook awards.

    Why not just killfile the twat?
    --
    PJR :-)
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  • From Peter J Ross@pjr@example.invalid to news.software.readers on Sun Dec 21 19:58:38 2025
    From Newsgroup: news.software.readers

    On 2025-08-23, Colin Macleod <user7@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

    BlinkyTheShark <Blinky@imback.com> posted:

    In my opinion, these Google Groupers didn't really deserve to live. If
    someone can't setup and use a newsreader, and have to rely on a web
    interface to access our beloved Usenet that belongs to us and only us,
    they weren't really valuable to planet Earth.

    Better grab your smelling-salts then - I operate a web interface to usenet
    at https://newsgrouper.org . It certainly doesn't rival Google Groups in scale, and it tries to be more respectful to usenet norms, but it does offer easy access to the hoi-polloi!

    "Blocked due to UK Online Safety Act"

    I'll have a look with Tor tomorrow. But if being "respectful to usenet
    norms" means complying with RFCs and FAQs, I take my hat off to you.
    --
    PJR :-)
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