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  • Re: Iceberg

    From *skriptis@skriptis@post.t-com.hr to rec.sport.tennis on Thu May 21 20:39:01 2026
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    Whisper <whisper@ozemail.com.au> Wrote in message:r
    On 21/05/2026 2:26 pm, Scall5 wrote:> Serious question. Anyone know why he stopped posting here?Covid Vax got him?



    Whatever I miss him.

    It's the absence of an information that's hard to take.

    At least for good man bob we know what's going on.
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  • From Sawfish@sawfish666@gmail.com to rec.sport.tennis on Thu May 21 15:07:46 2026
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    On 5/21/26 11:39 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    Whisper <whisper@ozemail.com.au> Wrote in message:r
    On 21/05/2026 2:26 pm, Scall5 wrote:> Serious question. Anyone know why he stopped posting here?Covid Vax got him?



    Whatever I miss him.

    It's the absence of an information that's hard to take.

    At least for good man bob we know what's going on.

    Yes, he's still kickin' all right.

    I regret to say that I agree with one of your earlier speculations:
    Iceberg probably went under.

    I've seen a couple of cases where long time *older* posters just drop
    off the radar screen. In one instance, on a film discussion group on
    usenet, some other poster who knew him said that he had died over the
    weekend.
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  • From jdeluise@jdeluise@gmail.com to rec.sport.tennis on Thu May 21 16:49:25 2026
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    Pelle Svansl||s <pelle@svans.los> writes:

    On 21.5.2026 7.26, Scall5 wrote:
    Serious question. Anyone know why he stopped posting here?

    Maybe Marc Beckles of the Wilton tennis club in London
    knows. That's
    the club with the angry Fedfans. Iceberg was once jokingly
    rumoured to
    be Marc Beckles. Beckles is a former top 50 GB player.

    When he set up the "alternate" web-based tennis guessing contest,
    he left his name on the WHOIS record for the site. I only
    remember his name was Bob.

    I dunno, he seemed relatively serious about moving to Russia to
    take advantage of Putin's offer for immigrants. He probably died
    in Ukraine somewhere after being conscripted.
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