Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,rec.arts.sf.written,sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Missing Person. Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:49:47 -0700 Organization: The Starmaker Organization Lines: 156 Message-ID: <6ADAE76B.4EC4@ix.netcom.com> References: <11b6dn0$2ig4h$1@dont-email.me> <11b869p$36ie6$2@dont-email.me> <6ADA3992.54F3@ix.netcom.com> <11bds8p$16llb$2@dont-email.me> <11be028$18eof$1@dont-email.me> <6ADAA2E4.3616@ix.netcom.com> <11be9j6$1bcru$1@dont-email.me> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 04:49:28 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; logging-data="1563561"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18EGowTuAqr4PD59mFlxoIiVUk/4/o3V4Q="; posting-host="d4eedad3716345f866404b19d13c6db3" Cancel-Lock: sha1:c03bJp/5fsdmm/hN7SEahXHnGRY= sha256:2TOOUE5A+7iOHYtmp6n2egxtVhybLKWhV8ItQBgoca8= sha1:oTjckbeZG8ca5UnVspLsCiyARDw= sha256:LdHstgnZsrfKZ66zpkSK3iyQ9ecabyJx4oKSWGiPKV8= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 261022-10, 10/22/2026), Outbound message X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) Xref: csiph.com alt.usage.english:1152754 rec.arts.sf.written:661350 sci.physics.relativity:674857 Blaine wrote: > > The Starmaker wrote: > > 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 > > > > The missing person also crossposts. How can he get sick of his own > > crosspostings???? > > You have message this person allegedly wrote? I'd prefer to see it with > my own eyes, Stargozer. Can you read English? ---------------------------------------begins here---------------------------------------------------- Path: nntp.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien,rec.arts.books.tolkien,rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: The Enshittification Of Lord Of The Rings Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:37:52 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 52 Message-ID: <6dhisk1cnsfuce3vbqt37c6gc020io9tsm@4ax.com> References: <10q8h1g$jdni$2@dont-email.me> <10q94gr$qon8$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:42:52 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="128aaa076431808c24ab02b22a41e029"; logging-data="1797481"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18EL3qmOO6cCX3LiLjbrAAdes+I6YydFaY=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:oysUKhWDsPNHMbLdalRdh+DpMsA= Xref: nntp.eternal-september.org alt.fan.tolkien:17872 rec.arts.books.tolkien:20834 rec.arts.tv:1828831 X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 261022-10, 10/22/2026), Inbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean On Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:12:14 -0400, The True Melissa wrote: >Verily, in article <10q94gr$qon8$1@dont-email.me>, did atropos@mac.com=20 >deliver unto us this message: >> And this is just more of the same. And yes, Colbert and his kid are = writing >> it. > >Oh boy. > > >> It's not a sequel as the original post claimed. It's the Tom Bombadil >> chapters from FELLOWSHIP that Peter Jackson cut from the script to = keep the >> movie from being four hours long instead of just two and change. > >That actually sounds like a good idea for extra content. Everyone loves=20 >Tom Bombadil, even though Tolkein himself said we were all making too=20 >much of him. > >Let's hope the Colberts pere and fil have the hidden chops to do it=20 >right.=20 But ... but ... but -- if they do it "right" in the sense of following JRRT's story, it will not agree with the other films, which tell PJ's version. -- if the do it "right" in the sense of being compatible with PJ's film, then it will not agree with JRRT's story It cannot be "right" in both senses. =46or example: -- in JRRT's story, the Hobbits obtain their swords from the Barrow-Wights barrow -- in PJ's story, the Hobbits obtain their swords from Aragorn, who (presumably) went to the nearest cache of Hobbit-sized swords and brought four back (one must imagine many such sites scattered throughout the North for this to work) to Weathertop So either they don't get their swords in the barrow, in which case the film will be missing an important scene from the book, or PJ's film is shown to be=20 wrong! wrong! wrong! which, of course, it is in many ways. --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'" -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.