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  Interesting letter about Newsguy D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2021-11-20 12:13 -0600
    Re: Interesting letter about Newsguy Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-11-20 19:08 +0000
      Re: Interesting letter about Newsguy D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2021-11-20 15:19 -0600
        Re: Interesting letter about Newsguy J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-11-20 17:38 -0500
          Re: Interesting letter about Newsguy Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> - 2021-11-21 10:02 +0000
            Re: Interesting letter about Newsguy J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-11-21 11:28 -0500
              Re: Interesting letter about Newsguy Charles Richmond <codescott@aquaporin4.com> - 2021-11-21 11:31 -0600
                Re: Interesting letter about Newsguy J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2021-11-21 13:48 -0500
                Re: Interesting letter about Newsguy Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2021-11-22 17:05 +0000
              Re: Interesting letter about Newsguy Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2021-11-22 07:01 -0700
                Re: Interesting letter about Newsguy scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2021-11-22 15:10 +0000
                Re: Interesting letter about Newsguy John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2021-11-22 19:36 +0000
              Re: Interesting letter about Newsguy Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> - 2021-11-23 08:50 +0000
                Re: Interesting letter about Newsguy D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com> - 2021-11-23 08:35 -0600

#219800 — Interesting letter about Newsguy

I received two letters about newsguy this week.

1) If I was interested in bidding for them; gear, domains, etc., the
minimum bid was $10K.

2) The other, from a different lawyer, if I felt they owed me money,
provide evidence to an address and thet would look it over.

At most they owed me for about 3 days at around 50 centas a day, not
worth worrying about.

And I have no desire, nor the money, to own an ISP.

Have any of you received similar letters ?

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#219802

On 2021-11-20, D.J <chucktheouch@gmail.com> wrote:

> I received two letters about newsguy this week.
>
> 1) If I was interested in bidding for them; gear, domains, etc., the
> minimum bid was $10K.
>
> 2) The other, from a different lawyer, if I felt they owed me money,
> provide evidence to an address and thet would look it over.
>
> At most they owed me for about 3 days at around 50 centas a day, not
> worth worrying about.
>
> And I have no desire, nor the money, to own an ISP.
>
> Have any of you received similar letters ?

I received a notice from the U.S. bankruptcy court a month or so ago.
My newsfeed had mysteriously gone dead, and after hearing rumours of
bankruptcy I switched to Astraweb, where I had an account that had
lain dormant for several years but which still works.

Like you, I didn't figure there was enough money involved to worry
about it.  I kind of liked them, though - too bad they went down.

-- 
/~\  Charlie Gibbs                  |  Microsoft is a dictatorship.
\ /  <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>      |  Apple is a cult.
 X   I'm really at ac.dekanfrus     |  Linux is anarchy.
/ \  if you read it the right way.  |  Pick your poison.

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#219805

On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 19:08:52 GMT, Charlie Gibbs
<cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>On 2021-11-20, D.J <chucktheouch@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I received two letters about newsguy this week.
>>
>> 1) If I was interested in bidding for them; gear, domains, etc., the
>> minimum bid was $10K.
>>
>> 2) The other, from a different lawyer, if I felt they owed me money,
>> provide evidence to an address and thet would look it over.
>>
>> At most they owed me for about 3 days at around 50 centas a day, not
>> worth worrying about.
>>
>> And I have no desire, nor the money, to own an ISP.
>>
>> Have any of you received similar letters ?
>
>I received a notice from the U.S. bankruptcy court a month or so ago.
>My newsfeed had mysteriously gone dead, and after hearing rumours of
>bankruptcy I switched to Astraweb, where I had an account that had
>lain dormant for several years but which still works.
>
>Like you, I didn't figure there was enough money involved to worry
>about it.  I kind of liked them, though - too bad they went down.

Yeah, the few times, and I mean very few, there was a problem, they
took care of it. Nice folks.

I did see on a web forum, when I did a search on NewsGuy, that some
folks had just renewed for a year when the company went off line. They
might want their cash back.
--  
Jim

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#219807

On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 15:19:08 -0600, D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 19:08:52 GMT, Charlie Gibbs
><cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>>On 2021-11-20, D.J <chucktheouch@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I received two letters about newsguy this week.
>>>
>>> 1) If I was interested in bidding for them; gear, domains, etc., the
>>> minimum bid was $10K.
>>>
>>> 2) The other, from a different lawyer, if I felt they owed me money,
>>> provide evidence to an address and thet would look it over.
>>>
>>> At most they owed me for about 3 days at around 50 centas a day, not
>>> worth worrying about.
>>>
>>> And I have no desire, nor the money, to own an ISP.
>>>
>>> Have any of you received similar letters ?
>>
>>I received a notice from the U.S. bankruptcy court a month or so ago.
>>My newsfeed had mysteriously gone dead, and after hearing rumours of
>>bankruptcy I switched to Astraweb, where I had an account that had
>>lain dormant for several years but which still works.
>>
>>Like you, I didn't figure there was enough money involved to worry
>>about it.  I kind of liked them, though - too bad they went down.
>
>Yeah, the few times, and I mean very few, there was a problem, they
>took care of it. Nice folks.
>
>I did see on a web forum, when I did a search on NewsGuy, that some
>folks had just renewed for a year when the company went off line. They
>might want their cash back.

If I was a zillionaire I'd buy the remains, rehire any staff that
wanted to come back, and set them up in a permanent facility with an
endowment that paid the bills.

Alas, I'm not a zillionaire and likely never will be.

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#219810

On 2021-11-20, J  Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 15:19:08 -0600, D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 19:08:52 GMT, Charlie Gibbs
>><cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>>>On 2021-11-20, D.J <chucktheouch@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I received two letters about newsguy this week.
>>>>
> If I was a zillionaire I'd buy the remains, rehire any staff that
> wanted to come back, and set them up in a permanent facility with an
> endowment that paid the bills.
>
> Alas, I'm not a zillionaire and likely never will be.

Don't despair, inflation will make us all zillionairs soon.


-- 
greymausg@mail.com
That's not a mousehole!

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#219813

On 21 Nov 2021 10:02:12 GMT, Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> wrote:

>On 2021-11-20, J  Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 15:19:08 -0600, D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 19:08:52 GMT, Charlie Gibbs
>>><cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>>>>On 2021-11-20, D.J <chucktheouch@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I received two letters about newsguy this week.
>>>>>
>> If I was a zillionaire I'd buy the remains, rehire any staff that
>> wanted to come back, and set them up in a permanent facility with an
>> endowment that paid the bills.
>>
>> Alas, I'm not a zillionaire and likely never will be.
>
>Don't despair, inflation will make us all zillionairs soon.

One of these days we're all going to be millionaires and we're all
going to be poor.  The people who remember the '70s are dying off and
the kids just don't get it.  They think that their _pay_ is going to
go up to match prices.

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#219815

On 11/21/2021 10:28 AM, J. Clarke wrote:
> On 21 Nov 2021 10:02:12 GMT, Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2021-11-20, J  Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 15:19:08 -0600, D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 19:08:52 GMT, Charlie Gibbs
>>>> <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> On 2021-11-20, D.J <chucktheouch@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I received two letters about newsguy this week.
>>>>>>
>>> If I was a zillionaire I'd buy the remains, rehire any staff that
>>> wanted to come back, and set them up in a permanent facility with an
>>> endowment that paid the bills.
>>>
>>> Alas, I'm not a zillionaire and likely never will be.
>>
>> Don't despair, inflation will make us all zillionairs soon.
> 
> One of these days we're all going to be millionaires and we're all
> going to be poor.  The people who remember the '70s are dying off and
> the kids just don't get it.  They think that their _pay_ is going to
> go up to match prices.
> 

"The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would 
trickle down to the needy.  Mr. Hoover didn't know that money trickles 
up.  Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will 
have it before night, anyhow.  But it will have at least passed through 
the poor fellow's hands."
                      -- Will Rogers


-- 

Charles Richmond

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#219817

On Sun, 21 Nov 2021 11:31:52 -0600, Charles Richmond
<codescott@aquaporin4.com> wrote:

>On 11/21/2021 10:28 AM, J. Clarke wrote:
>> On 21 Nov 2021 10:02:12 GMT, Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2021-11-20, J  Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 15:19:08 -0600, D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 19:08:52 GMT, Charlie Gibbs
>>>>> <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> On 2021-11-20, D.J <chucktheouch@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I received two letters about newsguy this week.
>>>>>>>
>>>> If I was a zillionaire I'd buy the remains, rehire any staff that
>>>> wanted to come back, and set them up in a permanent facility with an
>>>> endowment that paid the bills.
>>>>
>>>> Alas, I'm not a zillionaire and likely never will be.
>>>
>>> Don't despair, inflation will make us all zillionairs soon.
>> 
>> One of these days we're all going to be millionaires and we're all
>> going to be poor.  The people who remember the '70s are dying off and
>> the kids just don't get it.  They think that their _pay_ is going to
>> go up to match prices.
>> 
>
>"The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would 
>trickle down to the needy.  Mr. Hoover didn't know that money trickles 
>up.  Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will 
>have it before night, anyhow.  But it will have at least passed through 
>the poor fellow's hands."
>                      -- Will Rogers

The Sheriff of Nottingham method mostly helps the Sheriff.  The Robin
Hood method mostly helps Robin.  Eventually the poor lynch them both
and Hilarity Ensues.

Henry Ford somehow managed to make things better for everybody for a
while but the Sheriff and Robin couldn't be having that.

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#219827

On 2021-11-21, Charles Richmond <codescott@aquaporin4.com> wrote:

> "The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would 
> trickle down to the needy.  Mr. Hoover didn't know that money trickles 
> up.  Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will 
> have it before night, anyhow.  But it will have at least passed through 
> the poor fellow's hands."
>                       -- Will Rogers

The problem with trickle-down economics is that most of what trickles
down is yellow.  That's why those at the bottom are called "peons".

Sometimes, though, what trickles down is brown.  This is known as the
"shit flows downhill" theory.

Basically, though, if anything at all trickles down this is seen as
a form of leakage, which is repaired as soon as practicable.

Large corporations believe that the mere fact of their existence
entitles them to our money.  They might let us hold it briefly,
but they want it back promptly - with interest.

-- 
/~\  Charlie Gibbs                  |  Microsoft is a dictatorship.
\ /  <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>      |  Apple is a cult.
 X   I'm really at ac.dekanfrus     |  Linux is anarchy.
/ \  if you read it the right way.  |  Pick your poison.

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#219822

J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 Nov 2021 10:02:12 GMT, Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2021-11-20, J  Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 15:19:08 -0600, D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 19:08:52 GMT, Charlie Gibbs
>>>> <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> On 2021-11-20, D.J <chucktheouch@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I received two letters about newsguy this week.
>>>>>> 
>>> If I was a zillionaire I'd buy the remains, rehire any staff that
>>> wanted to come back, and set them up in a permanent facility with an
>>> endowment that paid the bills.
>>> 
>>> Alas, I'm not a zillionaire and likely never will be.
>> 
>> Don't despair, inflation will make us all zillionairs soon.
> 
> One of these days we're all going to be millionaires and we're all
> going to be poor.  The people who remember the '70s are dying off and
> the kids just don't get it.  They think that their _pay_ is going to
> go up to match prices.
> 

When I was a kid, saying someone was a millionaire was saying they were
really rich. Now with houses costing north of half a million (or more in
places) and ubiquitous 401-Ks a millionaire is just middle-class, and I
don’t think I’m doing any better than I was when I made $12,000 a year.

-- 
Pete

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#219823

Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
>J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 21 Nov 2021 10:02:12 GMT, Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2021-11-20, J  Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 15:19:08 -0600, D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 19:08:52 GMT, Charlie Gibbs
>>>>> <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> On 2021-11-20, D.J <chucktheouch@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I received two letters about newsguy this week.
>>>>>>> 
>>>> If I was a zillionaire I'd buy the remains, rehire any staff that
>>>> wanted to come back, and set them up in a permanent facility with an
>>>> endowment that paid the bills.
>>>> 
>>>> Alas, I'm not a zillionaire and likely never will be.
>>> 
>>> Don't despair, inflation will make us all zillionairs soon.
>> 
>> One of these days we're all going to be millionaires and we're all
>> going to be poor.  The people who remember the '70s are dying off and
>> the kids just don't get it.  They think that their _pay_ is going to
>> go up to match prices.
>> 
>
>When I was a kid, saying someone was a millionaire was saying they were
>really rich.

A millionaire in 1960 would need to be a ten-millionaire today to have
the same buying power.

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#219829

According to Peter Flass  <peter_flass@yahoo.com>:
>> One of these days we're all going to be millionaires and we're all
>> going to be poor.  The people who remember the '70s are dying off and
>> the kids just don't get it.  They think that their _pay_ is going to
>> go up to match prices.
>
>When I was a kid, saying someone was a millionaire was saying they were
>really rich. Now with houses costing north of half a million (or more in
>places) and ubiquitous 401-Ks a millionaire is just middle-class, and I
>don’t think I’m doing any better than I was when I made $12,000 a year.

I gather that in many circles the term has been redefined to mean someone who makes $1M/yr.

If you manage your own pension plan via an IRA or 401(k) and you don't
have close to $1M in it by the time you retire, you're at risk of
runing out of money. On average people live 20 years after they reach
65, which means half of us will live longer than that.

-- 
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly

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#219830

On 2021-11-21, J  Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 Nov 2021 10:02:12 GMT, Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> wrote:
>
>>On 2021-11-20, J  Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 15:19:08 -0600, D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 19:08:52 GMT, Charlie Gibbs
>>>><cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>On 2021-11-20, D.J <chucktheouch@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I received two letters about newsguy this week.
>>>>>>
>>> If I was a zillionaire I'd buy the remains, rehire any staff that
>>> wanted to come back, and set them up in a permanent facility with an
>>> endowment that paid the bills.
>>>
>>> Alas, I'm not a zillionaire and likely never will be.
>>
>>Don't despair, inflation will make us all zillionairs soon.
>
> One of these days we're all going to be millionaires and we're all
> going to be poor.  The people who remember the '70s are dying off and
> the kids just don't get it.  They think that their _pay_ is going to
> go up to match prices.

When I was young(er), I collected stamps. I had some German ones from the
1920's which had a face value of 1 mark, but were overstamped for (I
think, they are under a pile of old records)  1 milliard. I have
Cambodian bank notes of 50,000 face value. The person that gave them to
me did not bother to change them. After that, we have Zimbabuan money,
and Indian (to an extent).


-- 
greymausg@mail.com
That's not a mousehole!

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#219839

On 23 Nov 2021 08:50:04 GMT, Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> wrote:
>On 2021-11-21, J  Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 21 Nov 2021 10:02:12 GMT, Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On 2021-11-20, J  Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 15:19:08 -0600, D.J. <chucktheouch@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 19:08:52 GMT, Charlie Gibbs
>>>>><cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>On 2021-11-20, D.J <chucktheouch@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I received two letters about newsguy this week.
>>>>>>>
>>>> If I was a zillionaire I'd buy the remains, rehire any staff that
>>>> wanted to come back, and set them up in a permanent facility with an
>>>> endowment that paid the bills.
>>>>
>>>> Alas, I'm not a zillionaire and likely never will be.
>>>
>>>Don't despair, inflation will make us all zillionairs soon.
>>
>> One of these days we're all going to be millionaires and we're all
>> going to be poor.  The people who remember the '70s are dying off and
>> the kids just don't get it.  They think that their _pay_ is going to
>> go up to match prices.
>
>When I was young(er), I collected stamps. I had some German ones from the
>1920's which had a face value of 1 mark, but were overstamped for (I
>think, they are under a pile of old records)  1 milliard. I have
>Cambodian bank notes of 50,000 face value. The person that gave them to
>me did not bother to change them. After that, we have Zimbabuan money,
>and Indian (to an extent).

I have several of those surcharged German stamps to. No idea how much
they are worth. The one that got lost in a move was from an African
country, it was made partially out of clay. It commemorated President
Kennedy.
--  
Jim

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