From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: ** X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, MSGID_RANDY,PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,aed007793f636ca1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ted Dennison Subject: Re: Greg Ah*ronian sighting Date: 1999/10/28 Message-ID: <7v9knh$rag$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 541605151 References: <8E6C9BA0Avictorgiddingsoiscom@sigma> <7v8doa$bf$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x29.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu Oct 28 13:57:11 1999 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDtedennison Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 1999-10-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7v8doa$bf$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar wrote: > In article <8E6C9BA0Avictorgiddingsoiscom@sigma>, > giddingsv@acm.org (Victor Giddings) wrote: > > http://www.legaltimes.com/cgi-shl/shownews.pl?id=1926 > Evidently Greg IS > > making a living off his new "target". > > Entertaining reading, especially: > > Aharonian concedes as much. �"I don't spell check, grammar > check, or fact check,� he says easily." > > A style that he perfected at comp.lang.ada before his departure, > an event (the departure) fondly remembered by those of us who > have been around for a long time :-) :-) Yeah, the difference is that he seems to have at least found a topic to vent on that someone actually *cares* about. I remember that he used to post 10 page screeds here that were almost without exception met with a resounding "so what?" I happened to be on a 1 year c.l.a hiatus when he left. What actually did it? Was it the dropping of the mandate? That should certainly have taken the wind out of his sails. (And quite a lot of wind it was too..) -- T.E.D. Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.