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Re: Missing Person.

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Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
> On 23/10/2026 09:38, Cryptoengineer wrote:
> snippage
>>>> On 10/19/2026 8:46 PM, Titus G wrote:
>>>>> Does anyone have any information regarding Paul S. Person's absence?
>>>>> Perhaps he is indisposed or maybe worse?
>
>>>> Sadly, if someone posts under a pseudonym, there's very little
>>>> we can do to follow up.
>
>>>> I've seen dozens of 'regulars' vanish from this group. In a
>>>> some cases, they're active under the same name elsewhere, but
>>>> often there's no trace.
>
> I couldn't remember the name of the person who converted Dorothy Heydt's
> novel, The Interior Life" except his first name, Bill, so looked up old
> posts of Dorothy's that I had kept and was amazed at the number of names
> of posters who have disappeared. I didn't find Bill's surname.

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One of the many pertinent usenet articles crediting Bill Gill appears
below. (It stimulates schadenfreude if search engines amped with
allegedly all-knowing AI fail to find such usenet posts.)

  Subject: Digitizing _The Interior Life_, redux
  Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 23:20:03 GMT

  So Bill Gill has scanned _TIL_ for me, and designated three
  (well, four, including chapter titles) fonts for it, and I have
  proofed and re-oroofed it till my eyes are ready to fall out of
  my head, and sent it back to him.

  And today I got the following email from him:

  >I have started trying to embed the fonts we selected into the
  >EPUB. Only one of the 4 will embed.  The others are locked to keep
  >them from being embedded.  I have found a utility on line that will
  >unlock them.  That of course kind of skips merrily over the copyright
  >laws.  Trying to find unlocked fonts will start us down a long and
  >winding trail. What do you want to do about it?  At this point I will
  >leave it up to you.

  >We could:

  >break the fonts and go ahead and use them
  >start searching again.
  >Choose less distinctive fonts that are already unlocked.
  >Others?

  I have suggested that he spend a couple days on option (3).  But
  I think we need advice at this point, from people who have gone
  through this already.

  (Though, probably, not with three fonts.)

  Any ideas?  LWE, I'm asking you in particular, since you put a
  lot of your OOP books online and seem to have succeeded.

  (Though, probably, not with three fonts.)

  Dorothy J. Heydt
  Vallejo, California
  djheydt at gmail dot com

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Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-22 09:28 -0700
  Re: Missing Person. Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-10-22 16:38 -0400
    Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-22 14:16 -0700
    Re: Missing Person. bliss <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-10-22 14:43 -0700
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        Re: Missing Person. Blaine <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-10-22 18:26 -0600
          Re: Missing Person. bliss <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-10-22 21:09 -0700
            Re: Missing Person. Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-10-23 19:00 +0800
          Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-22 21:49 -0700
            Re: Missing Person. Blaine <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-10-23 12:33 -0600
              Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-23 13:34 -0700
                Re: Missing Person. Blaine <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-10-23 14:36 -0600
                Re: Missing Person. Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-10-24 05:03 +0800
                Re: Missing Person. bliss <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-10-23 18:21 -0700
                Re: Missing Person. Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2026-10-24 14:59 +1300
                Re: Missing Person. Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-10-24 15:10 +0800
                Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-23 13:46 -0700
                Re: Missing Person. Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2026-10-23 23:20 -0400
                Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-26 08:41 -0700
                Re: Missing Person. Blaine <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-10-26 12:32 -0600
                Re: Missing Person. bliss <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-10-26 11:50 -0700
                Re: Missing Person. kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-10-26 15:33 -0400
                Re: Missing Person. Blaine <cactus_DAC@yahoo.com> - 2026-10-26 18:05 -0600
                Re: Missing Person. Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2026-10-27 08:35 +1300
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                Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-26 17:29 -0700
                Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-26 22:50 -0700
      Re: Missing Person. Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-10-23 10:50 +0800
    Re: Missing Person. Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2026-10-23 15:02 +1300
      Re: Missing Person. Don <g@crcomp.net> - 2026-10-23 05:23 +0000
        Re: Missing Person. Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> - 2026-10-23 18:44 +1300
        Re: Missing Person. Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-10-23 18:45 +0800
      Re: Missing Person. ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-10-23 10:35 +0000
    Re: Missing Person. "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-10-26 17:12 +0000
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