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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The thing about finishing stuff
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 13:05:45 -0500
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Tony Nance wrote:
> On 1/4/25 12:50 AM, Robert Woodward wrote:
>> In article <ltrtksFg3saU1@mid.individual.net>,
>>   ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) wrote:
>>
>>> In article <vlaevb$avvf$1@dont-email.me>,
>>> Default User <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> The Horny Goat wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 04:18:36 -0000 (UTC), "Default User"
>>>>> <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> A tour of the works of Walter Jon Williams.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Back in the day, WJW used to post to RASFW. There were some
>>>>>> hope-filled inquires about at third book in the Metropolitan
>>>>>> series. It's too bad that didn't come about.
>>>>>
>>>>> I never saw those but one of the big names (Jerry Pournelle?) used to
>>>>> write in alt.sysadmin.recovery - back when my main hard drive was 120
>>>>> mb :)
>>>>
>>>> There were some authors that would participate in RASWF back in the
>>>> day. Dorothy of course, but she was out of the game by the time I came
>>>> around. Lawrence (don't call me Larry) Watt-Evans was prominent for
>>>> quite some time. Ryk E. Spoor AKA Sea Wasp was a group member before
>>>> becoming an author, as I recall.
>>>>
>>>> No doubt I'm forgetting some.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Brian
>>>
>>> Eric Flint would drop in from time to time for a couple of years(?).
>>
>> IIRC, Jo Walton posted here from time to time.
>>
> 
> As did Lois McMaster Bujold, Steve Miller, Matthew Hughes, and even 
> Damon Knight, way back when (with 1-2 annoying habits, iirc).

John Christopher posted here for a short time.

William Hyde