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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here...
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2024 17:06:48 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <vglda3$391oe$1@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 11/8/2024 8:18 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>> In article <pan$3fd4b$507059d5$840bdc2f$43f809e6@cpacker.org>,
>> Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 23:34:04 +1100, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey!
>>>>
>>>> Is anybody else out there?
>>>>
>>>> Or has the disaster that is the USA meant that they've already started
>>>> trucking people off to the ovens???
>>>>
>>>> Only a few message from James and one from Lynn - well, apart from the
>>>> people/bots that I filter, that is.
>>>>
>>>> 	Cheers,
>>>> 		Gary	B-)
>>>
>>> The silence is notable because of the absence of quadibloc.
>>> He would have weighed in about events by now. But he hasn't
>>> posted since Oct 16, after posting seven times in September.
>> 
>> I don't see an obit in the Edmonton Journal but that could just mean
>> nobody cared to arrange one.
>> 
>> (There is an obit for a John Savard who died 2011)
>
>One of the sadder parts about participating in the
>dying-embers phase of Usenet is how so many people
>go silent unnoticed, leaving us with no indication
>whether they've passed on, or gone elsewhere.

For decades I wondered idly whatever happened to Stephen Robinette,
then had the question answered when I encountered his obit.
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