Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/17

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Subject: [Leica] Re: alt.fan.brian_reid
From: Jim Brick <jim_brick@agilent.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:55:24 -0700
References: <200108171327.JAA06230@hector.asc.upenn.edu> <200108171327.JAA06230@hector.asc.upenn.edu>

At 08:10 AM 8/17/01 -0700, Brian Reid wrote:

> > did you know there's an alt.fan.brian_reid? what a high honor!
>
>It was created at a time when alt.fan groups were used to denigrate 
>people, not praise them. I was the original creator of the alt.* 
>mechanism, and I tried to steer it perhaps a little bit longer than I 
>should have. You will note that there is also (on those few servers that 
>carry such groups) an alt.sex.pederasts.brian_reid, created five years ago 
>by a nut-case in Boulder, Colorado who thought that would annoy me.


Yikes... a Eudora 5.1 two chili pepper message!

Jim

In reply to: Message from kyle cassidy <cassidy@hector.asc.upenn.edu> ([Leica] alt.fan.brian_reid)
Message from kyle cassidy <cassidy@hector.asc.upenn.edu> ([Leica] alt.fan.brian_reid)