Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-4.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 16:36:20 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: I miss Gerry Quinn Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 12:36:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <7jtdgj5u4ljoll8d07g1nfglhojtmcgrt8@4ax.com> <74digjhha0bua6qonofpljnf1oo8gck04m@4ax.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 44 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-RbqxTY6KeBW4A0cCg7yu3DPpqazM5PAtrI6/No6ZHaPiEI2IANbfBw27sS6YPXyVct3T0Hk1zjnDMqP!alGRxzOulVbMNtCUEfv/e1Km+BzkdEs7KK9nW+FwLVz8WBlXmK/ha6AqXnerByvyLCWw33Zq X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3190 On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 10:28:18 -0400, Mike S. wrote: >On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 11:41:22 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson > wrote: > >>The earliest one I found in c.s.i.p.g.action through Google and using >>the nickname "Mike S." was from November 2 1994, regarding "Carrier >>Command". Of course, the name may refer to somebody else but it's as >>close as I could get. As for the game, Mikey liked it! ;-) >>https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action/c/0F1kP8yklS4/m/QOfilI3U_acJ >> >> >>Of course, Google's archive isn't complete; it only goes back to late >>1994. There are probably earlier "Mike S." posts that are, sadly, now >>lost to history. > >That is not me. I never played Carrier Command. Also, I was likely >posting under a different variation of my first and last name way back >in 1994. Finally, I wasn't in this newsgroup at all back then. I was >only in .rpg and .strategic. See, what did I tell ya? "Mike S" is not an original name. ;-) (you missed out on a good game though) The whole nick thing is a problem; I was a totally different person on Usenet back then too. ;-) Actually, one of the problems I have tracking down my older posts is that I went through so many nyms and NNTP hosts that I've forgotten most of them. My recent perusal of old usenet postings revealed -somewhat to my surprise- that I posted a lot less on csipg.ACTION than I thought. I always considered this my 'home base', but it turns out I was a lot more diverse; .RPG was a favorite, but so too .ADVENTURE, .FLIGHT-SIM and .STRATEGIC (.SPORTS could DIAF though ;-). But .Action got minimal attention. Anyway, I'll stop stalking you now, Mike S. (or whoever you are ;-). It was just an excuse for me to go through old postings anyway)