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- Path: merle.acns.nwu.edu!judd
- From: judd@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Stephen Judd)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: A Tale of comp.sys.cbm.binaries Re: Echo Stats
- Date: 24 Feb 1996 03:57:04 GMT
- Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston IL
- Message-ID: <4gm2ag$861@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- References: <611510@363.chatlink.com> <312d1eb4.16677691@news.nwlink.com>
- Reply-To: sjudd@nwu.edu (Stephen Judd)
- NNTP-Posting-Host: merle.acns.nwu.edu
-
- In article <312d1eb4.16677691@news.nwlink.com>,
- Yahoo <cowboy@nwlink.com> wrote:
- >Bios@sys363.chatlink.com wrote:
- >> Strange, comp.binaries.cbm has been dead over here too. I thought
- >> no one has been posting at all.
- >>
- >> ben
- >>---
- >> ■ OLX 2.2 TD ■ It's only a hobby ... only a hobby ... only a
- >>
- >I haven't seen anything in comp.binaries.cbm in five of six months. I
- >finally just unsubscribed.
-
- The comp.binaries.cbm story is a long and turbulent tale. To protect the
- names of those involved, I shall instead use the names "Hercules" and "Xena".
-
- Several years ago the newsgroup was created, and ran happily along under
- the moderatorship of Hercules. Hercules got a little burnt out on the
- job though and things started to peter out and then pretty soon stuff just
- wasn't appearing. After a few months Hercules apologized and suggested that
- a new moderator be found.
-
- A group of people volunteered (including myself), and it was agreed that
- Xena seemed the best choice for the job. He recruited helpers and set
- things up, and posts appeared regularly for a while then suddenly stopped.
-
- Many months later a message appeared on c.s.cbm.binaries from one of the
- usenet powers that be which stated that Xena appeared to have disappeared,
- and asked for a volunteer to moderate the group; this was several months
- back.
-
- That is as much as I know. Nobody volunteered, ah reckon.
-
- evetS- (ze one und only :)
-
- >Steve (who normally goes by evetS, but amazingly, that one is taken
- >here)
-