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Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking....

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On 1/5/2023 10:03 AM, patdolan wrote:
> On Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 2:15:22 AM UTC-8, J. J. Lodder wrote:
>> patdolan <patd...@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday, January 4, 2023 at 4:27:06 AM UTC-8, J. J. Lodder wrote:
>>>> patdolan <patd...@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Saturday, January 1, 2022 at 7:02:41 AM UTC-8, bodk...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> [-]
>>>>>  From a year ago tonight:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I note with some satisfaction that you have nothing better to do on
>>>>>> New Year's Eve but to post on Usenet and complain that nobody else
>>>>>> seems to be around.
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> Odd Bodkin -- maker of fine toys, tools, tables
>>>>>
>>>>> I wonder what ever became of damned ol' Bodkin. He's probably trying to
>>>>> explain some fine point of Relativity to Einstein at this very moment.
>>>> Odd Bodkin stopped posting here when his provider (AIOE)
>>>> stopped carrying sci.physics.relativity.
>>>> He didn't bother to get another provider.
>>>>
>>>> That is all there is to it.
>>>>
>>>> Jan
>>> I can't believe it is that simple, Jan.
>> Yet it is that simple.
>>> Did he actually convey this plan?
>>> Did he confirm his provider was AIOE?
>> So you are too dumb to read headers.
>> What happened: AIOE posted an announcement
>> that they would no longer carry a number of newsgroups,
>> because they felt that these groups carried too much abuse.
>> s.p.rel was one of those.
>>
>> Overnight a number of regulars of s.p.rel vanished.
>> Dirk van de Moortel was another.
>> Some returned later, some didn't.
>> I did the opposite, and gave up on AIOE altogether.
>>> Why wouldn't he use google, as I do?
>> Why would he? I guess he was already fed up with this group,
>> with its endless repetitions of variations on the same nonsense.
>> (by people like you, for example)
>>
>> It may have felt like a good opportunity for a clean break,
> 
> I agreed with you there, Jan.  Bodkin was disheveled relativist addict with a four pack a day habit, like you.  On the other hand, Bodkin did not seem like the quit-cold-turkey type.
> 
> I tend to believe it was the fact that hound dog Hertz was hot on his trail, that ran Bodkin to ground.  Bodkin's truth was most likely not what he portrayed it to be.  The Hertz analysis of his typical posting day--active hours, interludes from posting, etc.--meant that Richard had gotten too close for comfort.
> 
> The other equally likely possibility is that a sudden health crisis that took him from us like the proverbial thief in the night.



In my experience with Usenet it is never just one thing.



>> Jan
>>> Wasn't he smart enough to do so? Or might Richard Hertz have tracked
>>> him down, like he did Dono, Stan Fultoni aka Townes Olsen?
>>

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Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... patdolan <patdolan@comcast.net> - 2022-12-31 15:16 -0800
  Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... Richard Hertz <hertz778@gmail.com> - 2023-01-01 14:38 -0800
    Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2023-01-01 16:55 -0600
      Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... patdolan <patdolan@comcast.net> - 2023-01-01 16:06 -0800
        Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2023-01-01 19:29 -0600
  Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2023-01-04 13:27 +0100
    Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... patdolan <patdolan@comcast.net> - 2023-01-04 19:57 -0800
      Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... Richard Hertz <hertz778@gmail.com> - 2023-01-04 20:24 -0800
      Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2023-01-05 00:10 -0600
        Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-01-04 23:42 -0800
        Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... Volney <volney@invalid.invalid> - 2023-01-05 02:56 -0500
          Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2023-01-05 16:29 -0600
            Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... Volney <volney@invalid.invalid> - 2023-01-05 23:13 -0500
              Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-01-05 22:39 -0800
              Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... Jim Pennino <jimp@gonzo.specsol.net> - 2023-01-06 09:11 -0800
                Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... Richard Hertz <hertz778@gmail.com> - 2023-01-06 09:26 -0800
                Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... patdolan <patdolan@comcast.net> - 2023-01-06 10:35 -0800
      Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... Volney <volney@invalid.invalid> - 2023-01-05 02:50 -0500
        Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... Maciej Wozniak <maluwozniak@gmail.com> - 2023-01-05 02:05 -0800
      Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2023-01-05 11:15 +0100
        Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... patdolan <patdolan@comcast.net> - 2023-01-05 08:03 -0800
          Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... whodat <whodaat@void.nowgre.com> - 2023-01-05 10:11 -0600
          Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... Richard Hertz <hertz778@gmail.com> - 2023-01-05 09:28 -0800
            Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... patdolan <patdolan@comcast.net> - 2023-01-05 10:50 -0800
              Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... Richard Hertz <hertz778@gmail.com> - 2023-01-05 12:10 -0800
                Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... patdolan <patdolan@comcast.net> - 2023-01-05 18:19 -0800
                Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... Richard Hertz <hertz778@gmail.com> - 2023-01-05 18:40 -0800
              Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... Paul Alsing <pnalsing@gmail.com> - 2023-01-05 17:21 -0800
                Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2023-01-06 14:51 +0100
        Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... patdolan <patdolan@comcast.net> - 2023-01-05 18:18 -0800
          Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2023-01-06 13:32 +0100
  Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... RichD <r_delaney2001@yahoo.com> - 2023-01-09 14:52 -0800
    Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... Volney <volney@invalid.invalid> - 2023-01-09 23:02 -0500
      Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... patdolan <patdolan@comcast.net> - 2023-01-10 01:51 -0800
      Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2023-01-10 15:49 +0100
        Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... Richard Hertz <hertz778@gmail.com> - 2023-01-10 10:42 -0800
          Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... patdolan <patdolan@comcast.net> - 2023-01-10 11:41 -0800
            Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... Richard Hertz <hertz778@gmail.com> - 2023-01-10 12:23 -0800
          Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2023-01-10 21:45 +0100
            Re: Bodkin, I've been thinking.... Richard Hertz <hertz778@gmail.com> - 2023-01-10 12:56 -0800

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