go.. go johnny go

bob

2007-05-31 00:09:30 UTC

I am just pleased as shit that you started a newsgroup that
I actually enjoy participating in.

Actually, I, TheDavid, newgrouped 'alt.thanatos' a couple years
ago. 'alt.sex.fetish.thedavid' and
'alt.religion.st-jennifer-of-the-knife' came around the same
time, I think. DejaNews'll clarify the dates.

Yes, us longtime a.t'ers know the whole story. We have publicly discussed
your role in it many times. We've argued about your true motivations for
newgroup'ing us into existence.

They were pure, I'm sure!!!

Then Bob "took over" as he was supposed to.

Yes. He and ras2 are the ones who did the real work.

Whatever happened to Ras?

Would you, Mr. "JohnnyFavorite", like a newsgroup of your own too?

The thought has crossed my mind recently. But I want to go the "legal"
route. ras2 and Bob had a heck of a time getting this place past the
people at alt.config. It's dicey enough that ras2 tells me that we would
not be allowed to create, say, alt.thanatos.inane to deal with the
overflow, because we are not an official second-level hierarchy.

The newsgroup is still here 9 years later.

So, thanks for the offer, but if this place starts to overflow too badly I
think the thing to do will be to take over an abandoned newsgroup somewhere
else.

Didn't I create one for you? Sure, it might have been there earlier
but I did newgroup alt.fan.johnny.favorite. My newgroup could have
been the genesis of the group. Thing is, you stopped using it. That
was sooo mean.

Oh, and by the way, please try to be nicer to Bob M. (at least
in public). Thanks in advance for your anticipated cooperation.

Have you actually been reading the threads? He pretty much jumped me out
of nowhere. I am certainly a cyclical jerk, but he won't tell me which of
my jerk-related activities it is that's really pissing him off. Time and
time again I have tried to get him to explain himself and allow us to get
past it.

I should have read that without bias. It seems you wanted to
reconcile. I was full of rage back then. Ah well.

The only reason I am participating in the flabby flamewar at ALL is because
of my pre-existing relationship with him. If somebody came in off the
street and started talking to me like that I would immediately label them a
troll and ignore them.

So, it wasn't the challenge. You were accommodating me?

We are very different, aren't we?

I was a bigger jerk in the past than I am now.