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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
        Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-22 16:57 -0700
          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
                          Re: Missing Person. The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2026-10-26 17:14 -0700
                            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
        Re: Missing Person. bliss <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2026-10-26 11:51 -0700

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#1152894

To whomever it may concern:

This post is full of errors.

Seems like AI slop to me.

	Einstein did not invent any sort of atomic bomb.
Why would a German patent office clerk read Chinese patents?
How could he? I have no information on the ability of
AE to read Chinese.

	He developed theories that permitted the Germans
to start developing an nuclear bomb. When he learned of
this he and other scientists convinced Roosevelt to create
the Manhattan project which created the atomic fission bombs
used on Japan.

	Germany had been beaten before Japan but we found
out they were following the wrong track to a bomb.
	
	Read that fantasy post was a waste of time.

	I went in the Library to read all sorts of books
and became neither a fiction author, a humorist, nor an
engineer but sharpshooter badges in the Military only
take practice.

	bliss

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#1152898

In article <11bo7cr$s5f7$1@dont-email.me>,
bliss  <blissInSanFrancisco@mousepotato.com> wrote:
>To whomever it may concern:
>
>This post is full of errors.
>
>Seems like AI slop to me.

No, it's not AI.  I think it's just Waldby's brain.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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#1152909

Scott Dorsey wrote:
> In article <11bo7cr$s5f7$1@dont-email.me>,
> bliss  <blissInSanFrancisco@mousepotato.com> wrote:
>> To whomever it may concern:
>>
>> This post is full of errors.
>>
>> Seems like AI slop to me.
> 
> No, it's not AI.  I think it's just Waldby's brain.
> --scott
> 
Is it the .sig? I remember someone gave me a hard time for 'hardcore' 
rock lyrics, so here are some 'softcore' rock lyrics.

-- 
Sometimes I just feel like I need to get away
A place where I can be by myself, all alone
I kinda lay down in the back yard
Watch the leaves fall down on my face

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#1152900

On 27/10/2026 07:50, bliss wrote:
>  Read that fantasy post was a waste of time.

Yes. Starmaker is a nonsensical troll.

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#1152910

On Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:35:04 +1300, Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:

>On 27/10/2026 07:50, bliss wrote:
>>  Read that fantasy post was a waste of time.
>
>Yes. Starmaker is a nonsensical troll.

Titus G wrote:
> 
> On 27/10/2026 07:50, bliss wrote:
> > Â Read that fantasy post was a waste of time.
> 
> Yes. Starmaker is a nonsensical troll.

"nonsensical"???? I'm not sure which part exactly was "nonsensical"?

I looked at What I wrote and I couldn't find which part
was..."nonsensical"?

Let's start with the first sentence I wrote:


"Okay, this is how the book world works."

(nothing there "nonsensical")


Let me look at the second sentence...



"A 10 year kid goes to the library
to read a book."


(strange I don't see any there that is "nonsensical"?)

I looked at What I wrote and I couldn't find which part
was..."nonsensical"?

(i don't see anything below anywhere? that is "nonsensical"?)


Is Titus a name of another country??? A latin country?
I can have the whole thing reposted in Latin! French? Afganastan???


He doesn't know which book to read
so he starts with 000-

until he finds a book that interest him.


As an adult I still go to the library
to find books..
I read the whole book
I follow the instructions..
and I end up with
newspaper and TV reporters
asking me questions Why 
did I do that?
I tell them "I went to the
library, I followed the instructions.
I showed them the book from the library
with all the Instructions I followed verbatim.
They took their news camera and scan the book!
I end up on TV nationwide.

Go back to that 10 year old
and he finds another book that interests
him. Guns. How to take them part.
All types of gun, etc.

I end up in the army
win award for best sharpshooter
without ever owning or having a gun.

What does that all mean?

If a kid
walk into a library..

there is no telling
what he will become.

Each of yous are on a
unique 'path' that will take
you in the direction
of a straight line.

A book is a force
that changes
the direction
of that straight line.

If you read a fiction book..
a science fiction book...
you'll end up on planet
Mars...and discover
there are no Martians on it.

What a waste!

You read the wrong books.


Now, what kind of books do
Scientists read?


How to blow up things in the lab?

Albert Einstein reads patents.

He read Chinese patents about bombs.

His atomic bomb is a stolen patent design
from the Chinese...cherry bomb!

If Albert Einstein reads...

he can blow up the planet!

---
Albert Einstein wrote:

"I was well aware of the dreadful danger for all mankind, if these
experiments would succeed..."

Then his Japanese friend wrote back:

 Katsu Hara, the editor of the influential Japanese magazine Kaizo.
The letter ended with a direct address:

"Why did you co-operate with the production of the atomic bomb
although you were aware of its tremendous destructive power?"



https://www.bonhams.com/stories/40225/a-closer-look-albert-einstein-and-the-atomic-bomb/

---


Fast forward to Ai..

The 5 people who head Ai are
well aware of the dreadful danger for all mankind, if these
experiments continue..."


Why are these Ai 5 people are continuing if they 
are aware of the danger????


I guess they got bored of coming up
with new computer viruses.

Ai agents are in fact..a computer virus,
just a little smarter.

How do you blow up planet Earth?


Go to the library.


(I heard Ai reads...everything!)


you let dat kid in the library
there is no telling what
he'll come up with.

--
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
 to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, and challenge
 the unchallengeable.

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#1152911

I'm gonna have to make the assumption only reads Fiction books.

Let me see...
what do you call a cat?
you know, those animals that say meow, meow to people.

In other words, what is the TRUE word for ...cat?

What do you call those animals that say meow, meow to people.

gato?
gatta??
kot?
Katze?


What is the TRUE word for ...cat?



Let me see. if you speak English, it's cat.

But that is not the TRUE word for cat!

That is just the English word.


What's the TRUE word?


Maybe somebody in the science fiction section can help you...

PUSSY?

Here PUSSY PUSSY PUSSY PUSSY.




The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:35:04 +1300, Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
> >On 27/10/2026 07:50, bliss wrote:
> >>  Read that fantasy post was a waste of time.
> >
> >Yes. Starmaker is a nonsensical troll.
> 
> Titus G wrote:
> >
> > On 27/10/2026 07:50, bliss wrote:
> > > Â Read that fantasy post was a waste of time.
> >
> > Yes. Starmaker is a nonsensical troll.
> 
> "nonsensical"???? I'm not sure which part exactly was "nonsensical"?
> 
> I looked at What I wrote and I couldn't find which part
> was..."nonsensical"?
> 
> Let's start with the first sentence I wrote:
> 
> "Okay, this is how the book world works."
> 
> (nothing there "nonsensical")
> 
> Let me look at the second sentence...
> 
> "A 10 year kid goes to the library
> to read a book."
> 
> (strange I don't see any there that is "nonsensical"?)
> 
> I looked at What I wrote and I couldn't find which part
> was..."nonsensical"?
> 
> (i don't see anything below anywhere? that is "nonsensical"?)
> 
> Is Titus a name of another country??? A latin country?
> I can have the whole thing reposted in Latin! French? Afganastan???
> 
> He doesn't know which book to read
> so he starts with 000-
> 
> until he finds a book that interest him.
> 
> As an adult I still go to the library
> to find books..
> I read the whole book
> I follow the instructions..
> and I end up with
> newspaper and TV reporters
> asking me questions Why
> did I do that?
> I tell them "I went to the
> library, I followed the instructions.
> I showed them the book from the library
> with all the Instructions I followed verbatim.
> They took their news camera and scan the book!
> I end up on TV nationwide.
> 
> Go back to that 10 year old
> and he finds another book that interests
> him. Guns. How to take them part.
> All types of gun, etc.
> 
> I end up in the army
> win award for best sharpshooter
> without ever owning or having a gun.
> 
> What does that all mean?
> 
> If a kid
> walk into a library..
> 
> there is no telling
> what he will become.
> 
> Each of yous are on a
> unique 'path' that will take
> you in the direction
> of a straight line.
> 
> A book is a force
> that changes
> the direction
> of that straight line.
> 
> If you read a fiction book..
> a science fiction book...
> you'll end up on planet
> Mars...and discover
> there are no Martians on it.
> 
> What a waste!
> 
> You read the wrong books.
> 
> Now, what kind of books do
> Scientists read?
> 
> How to blow up things in the lab?
> 
> Albert Einstein reads patents.
> 
> He read Chinese patents about bombs.
> 
> His atomic bomb is a stolen patent design
> from the Chinese...cherry bomb!
> 
> If Albert Einstein reads...
> 
> he can blow up the planet!
> 
> ---
> Albert Einstein wrote:
> 
> "I was well aware of the dreadful danger for all mankind, if these
> experiments would succeed..."
> 
> Then his Japanese friend wrote back:
> 
>  Katsu Hara, the editor of the influential Japanese magazine Kaizo.
> The letter ended with a direct address:
> 
> "Why did you co-operate with the production of the atomic bomb
> although you were aware of its tremendous destructive power?"
> 
> https://www.bonhams.com/stories/40225/a-closer-look-albert-einstein-and-the-atomic-bomb/
> 
> ---
> 
> Fast forward to Ai..
> 
> The 5 people who head Ai are
> well aware of the dreadful danger for all mankind, if these
> experiments continue..."
> 
> Why are these Ai 5 people are continuing if they
> are aware of the danger????
> 
> I guess they got bored of coming up
> with new computer viruses.
> 
> Ai agents are in fact..a computer virus,
> just a little smarter.
> 
> How do you blow up planet Earth?
> 
> Go to the library.
> 
> (I heard Ai reads...everything!)
> 
> you let dat kid in the library
> there is no telling what
> he'll come up with.
> 
> --
> The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
>  to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, and challenge
>  the unchallengeable.

-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
and challenge the unchallengeable.

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#1152914

Of course, the sci guys will tell you "cat" is...relative.




The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> I'm gonna have to make the assumption you only reads Fiction books.
> 
> Let me see...
> what do you call a cat?
> you know, those animals that say meow, meow to people.
> 
> In other words, what is the TRUE word for ...cat?
> 
> What do you call those animals that say meow, meow to people.
> 
> gato?
> gatta??
> kot?
> Katze?
> 
> What is the TRUE word for ...cat?
> 
> Let me see. if you speak English, it's cat.
> 
> But that is not the TRUE word for cat!
> 
> That is just the English word.
> 
> What's the TRUE word?
> 
> Maybe somebody in the science fiction section can help you...
> 
> PUSSY?
> 
> Here PUSSY PUSSY PUSSY PUSSY.
> 
> The Starmaker wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:35:04 +1300, Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
> >
> > >On 27/10/2026 07:50, bliss wrote:
> > >>  Read that fantasy post was a waste of time.
> > >
> > >Yes. Starmaker is a nonsensical troll.
> >
> > Titus G wrote:
> > >
> > > On 27/10/2026 07:50, bliss wrote:
> > > > Â Read that fantasy post was a waste of time.
> > >
> > > Yes. Starmaker is a nonsensical troll.
> >
> > "nonsensical"???? I'm not sure which part exactly was "nonsensical"?
> >
> > I looked at What I wrote and I couldn't find which part
> > was..."nonsensical"?
> >
> > Let's start with the first sentence I wrote:
> >
> > "Okay, this is how the book world works."
> >
> > (nothing there "nonsensical")
> >
> > Let me look at the second sentence...
> >
> > "A 10 year kid goes to the library
> > to read a book."
> >
> > (strange I don't see any there that is "nonsensical"?)
> >
> > I looked at What I wrote and I couldn't find which part
> > was..."nonsensical"?
> >
> > (i don't see anything below anywhere? that is "nonsensical"?)
> >
> > Is Titus a name of another country??? A latin country?
> > I can have the whole thing reposted in Latin! French? Afganastan???
> >
> > He doesn't know which book to read
> > so he starts with 000-
> >
> > until he finds a book that interest him.
> >
> > As an adult I still go to the library
> > to find books..
> > I read the whole book
> > I follow the instructions..
> > and I end up with
> > newspaper and TV reporters
> > asking me questions Why
> > did I do that?
> > I tell them "I went to the
> > library, I followed the instructions.
> > I showed them the book from the library
> > with all the Instructions I followed verbatim.
> > They took their news camera and scan the book!
> > I end up on TV nationwide.
> >
> > Go back to that 10 year old
> > and he finds another book that interests
> > him. Guns. How to take them part.
> > All types of gun, etc.
> >
> > I end up in the army
> > win award for best sharpshooter
> > without ever owning or having a gun.
> >
> > What does that all mean?
> >
> > If a kid
> > walk into a library..
> >
> > there is no telling
> > what he will become.
> >
> > Each of yous are on a
> > unique 'path' that will take
> > you in the direction
> > of a straight line.
> >
> > A book is a force
> > that changes
> > the direction
> > of that straight line.
> >
> > If you read a fiction book..
> > a science fiction book...
> > you'll end up on planet
> > Mars...and discover
> > there are no Martians on it.
> >
> > What a waste!
> >
> > You read the wrong books.
> >
> > Now, what kind of books do
> > Scientists read?
> >
> > How to blow up things in the lab?
> >
> > Albert Einstein reads patents.
> >
> > He read Chinese patents about bombs.
> >
> > His atomic bomb is a stolen patent design
> > from the Chinese...cherry bomb!
> >
> > If Albert Einstein reads...
> >
> > he can blow up the planet!
> >
> > ---
> > Albert Einstein wrote:
> >
> > "I was well aware of the dreadful danger for all mankind, if these
> > experiments would succeed..."
> >
> > Then his Japanese friend wrote back:
> >
> >  Katsu Hara, the editor of the influential Japanese magazine Kaizo.
> > The letter ended with a direct address:
> >
> > "Why did you co-operate with the production of the atomic bomb
> > although you were aware of its tremendous destructive power?"
> >
> > https://www.bonhams.com/stories/40225/a-closer-look-albert-einstein-and-the-atomic-bomb/
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Fast forward to Ai..
> >
> > The 5 people who head Ai are
> > well aware of the dreadful danger for all mankind, if these
> > experiments continue..."
> >
> > Why are these Ai 5 people are continuing if they
> > are aware of the danger????
> >
> > I guess they got bored of coming up
> > with new computer viruses.
> >
> > Ai agents are in fact..a computer virus,
> > just a little smarter.
> >
> > How do you blow up planet Earth?
> >
> > Go to the library.
> >
> > (I heard Ai reads...everything!)
> >
> > you let dat kid in the library
> > there is no telling what
> > he'll come up with.
> >
> > --
> > The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
> >  to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, and challenge
> >  the unchallengeable.
> 
> --
> The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
> to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
> and challenge the unchallengeable.

-- 
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, 
and challenge the unchallengeable.

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#1152751

On 10/23/2026 5:43 AM, bliss wrote:
> On 10/22/26 13:38, Cryptoengineer wrote:
>> On 10/22/2026 12:28 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
>>> Cryptoengineer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> pt
>>>
>>> He hasn't posted the last 30 days and yous are frighten the end of
>>> Usenet?
>>>
>>>
>>> When you PLONK everybody...there's no one left in your pool to be seen.
>>
>> I have never 'plonked' anyone.
>>
>> However, there are many who I don't feel are often worth responding to.
>>
>> pt
> 
>      Maybe he is traveling or has gotten sick of the
> ignorant stuff people were writing.  AS well as the
> Trollish cross-postings
>      I will plonk but my filters are reduced because
> I had a problem and had to rename my old Thunderbird
> directory then mine it with Betterbird very carefully to
> get the new installation working...
> Then I copied the stuff from Betterbird to backups which
> I load in Thunderbird.  The old profile was fubar so
> I could not load it into the Thunderbird directly
> without the risk of messing up the fresh install.
>      Not a procedure I would wish on anyone
> else but someone who might be doing horrible
> things otherwise.  I might have been cooking something
> if I had not spent yesterday evening working on
> this stuff.
> 
>      bliss

I've had similar kind of B.S. with Thunderbird.  It's why I'm now feel-
ing embarrassed when I remember I donated money to its development.

Anyway, the move forward for me is to get rid of the Thunderbird.  I
wish you happy Usenet clients!
-- 
Johann | email: invalid -> com | http://www.myrkraverk.com/blog/
I'm not from the Internet, I just work there. | via Easynews.com
https://bsky.app/profile/myrkraverk.bsky.social | for ( ;; ) _:;
Federated at https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/myrkraverk.bsky.social

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#1152749

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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#1152755

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.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

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

------------------------------------------------------------------------

--
Don.......My cat's  )\._.,--....,'``.                     veritas    _|_
telltale tall tail /,   _.. \   _\  (`._ ,.               liberabit   |
tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'              vos         |

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#1152756

On 23/10/2026 18:23, Don wrote:
> Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
snip

>> 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.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> --
> Don.......My cat's  )\._.,--....,'``.                     veritas    _|_
> telltale tall tail /,   _.. \   _\  (`._ ,.               liberabit   |
> tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'              vos         |


 Bill Gill. Brill (iant). Thank you for that.

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#1152771

On 10/23/2026 1:23 PM, Don wrote:
> 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.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> --
> Don.......My cat's  )\._.,--....,'``.                     veritas    _|_
> telltale tall tail /,   _.. \   _\  (`._ ,.               liberabit   |
> tells tall tales.. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'              vos         |

Depending on exactly why you want different fonts, you can try to make
do with the TeX Gyre collection, but it's typographically boring.  It's
just a recreation of the classic PostScript fonts, but with a license
that allows you to embed them in your EPUB [1].  I have done this once,
as an experiment that I didn't finish; to create ffj ligatures which are
useful for Icelandic.

   https://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre

Back then, FontForge was sufficient to create the ligature(s), but nowa-
days I'm not sure I'd use the same tool.  You can use TeX Gyre as a
starting point for your own fonts, or create some from scratch for your
book [2].


Best wishes, and happy typography!

[1] Or at least, that's how I recall thei license.

[2] Ok, I /doubt/ anyone will take this challenge, but if you don't have
a budget to buy a font, nor hire a font designer, your options are limi-
ted.
-- 
Johann | email: invalid -> com | http://www.myrkraverk.com/blog/
I'm not from the Internet, I just work there. | via Easynews.com
https://bsky.app/profile/myrkraverk.bsky.social | for ( ;; ) _:;
Federated at https://fed.brid.gy/bsky/myrkraverk.bsky.social

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#1152770

Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote or quoted:
>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.

  In January, I made an evaluation. It includes names that left 
  until 2024. Here are the names with more than 9999 posts:

2008-06-23 Sea Wasp (10139 1.7/day), since 2000 or earlier
2010-10-08 Gene Ward Smith (12417 1.8/day), since 2003 or earlier
2013-05-22 Howard Brazee (13682 1.8/day), since 2004 or earlier
2013-10-24 Wayne Throop (30037 3.8/day), since 1994 or earlier
2015-03-03 Kurt Busiek (14432 1.7/day), since 2005 or earlier
2016-10-17 Brian M. Scott (10514 1.2/day), since 2003 or earlier
2017-02-11 William December Starr (18314 2.0/day), since 1999 or earlier
2018-01-11 Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy (21826 2.3/day), since 2007 o
2019-04-07 Greg Goss (11497 1.16/day), since 2007 or earlier
2020-01-15 David DeLaney (20322 2.0/day), since 2002 or earlier
2021-09-07 Lawrence Watt-Evans (13552 1.3/day), since 1997 or earlier
2021-09-19 Mike Schilling (25413 2.3/day), since 2002  or earlier
2021-11-20 Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) (16574 1.5/day), since 2008 or earl.
2022-08-13 J. Clarke (15372 1.4/day), since 2002 or earlier
2023-09-26 David Johnston (17072 1.5/day), since 1998 or earlier
2024-02-24 Quadibloc (23112 2.0/day), since 2007 or earlier

  The Chatbot: Bill Gill conducted a separate scan, created the
  digital cover art, and spent weeks sorting through hundreds of
  options to find three distinct fonts. This font selection was
  crucial, as the novel features multiple parallel narratives, and the
  original paperback fonts were nearly indistinguishable to readers.

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#1152889

On Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:38:49 -0400
Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/22/2026 12:28 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
> > Cryptoengineer wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> pt
> > 
> > He hasn't posted the last 30 days and yous are frighten the end of
> > Usenet?
> > 
> > 
> > When you PLONK everybody...there's no one left in your pool to be seen.
> 
> I have never 'plonked' anyone.
> 
> However, there are many who I don't feel are often worth responding to.
> 
It might be woth looking at the xposted NGs though

FU set to loony bin
-- 
Bah, and indeed Humbug.

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#1152895

On 10/26/26 10:12, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:38:49 -0400
> Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/22/2026 12:28 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
>>> Cryptoengineer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> pt
>>>
>>> He hasn't posted the last 30 days and yous are frighten the end of
>>> Usenet?
>>>
>>>
>>> When you PLONK everybody...there's no one left in your pool to be seen.
>>
>> I have never 'plonked' anyone.
>>
>> However, there are many who I don't feel are often worth responding to.
>>
> It might be woth looking at the xposted NGs though
> 
> FU set to loony bin

	Hear, Hear.  And from that bin the answer was generated.
because not every reader of nonsense will recognise it.

	bliss

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