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    From Scall5@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, May 20, 2026 23:26:57
    Serious question. Anyone know why he stopped posting here?
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  • From Kalevi Kolttonen@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, May 21, 2026 14:20:52
    Scall5 <nospam@home.net> wrote:
    Serious question. Anyone know why he stopped posting here?

    Not sure, but I guess he was too stupid to find a new way to
    access Usenet after Google Groups were shut down. Using
    Eternal September would have been a good, free option.

    br,
    KK

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  • From Sawfish@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, May 21, 2026 07:33:51
    On 5/21/26 7:20 AM, Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:
    Scall5 <nospam@home.net> wrote:
    Serious question. Anyone know why he stopped posting here?

    Not sure, but I guess he was too stupid to find a new way to
    access Usenet after Google Groups were shut down. Using
    Eternal September would have been a good, free option.

    br,
    KK

    No, that was not it. He was posting well after the shutoff date.

    Court 1, Gracchus, and maybe raja threw in the towel at that point.

    Eternal September works well enough now. There is one based in Iceland
    called XLned (Dutch) that is good and cheap.

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    You were raised
    Up in the city
    And you never learned nothin'
    'bout country ways."


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  • From Whisper@3:633/10 to All on Friday, May 22, 2026 01:30:36
    On 21/05/2026 2:26 pm, Scall5 wrote:
    Serious question. Anyone know why he stopped posting here?


    Covid Vax got him?

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  • From Sawfish@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, May 21, 2026 15:07:46
    On 5/21/26 11:39 AM, *skriptis wrote:
    Whisper <whisper@ozemail.com.au> Wrote in message:r
    On 21/05/2026 2:26 pm, Scall5 wrote:> Serious question. Anyone know why he stopped posting here?Covid Vax got him?



    Whatever I miss him.

    It's the absence of an information that's hard to take.

    At least for good man bob we know what's going on.

    Yes, he's still kickin' all right.

    I regret to say that I agree with one of your earlier speculations:
    Iceberg probably went under.

    I've seen a couple of cases where long time *older* posters just drop
    off the radar screen. In one instance, on a film discussion group on
    usenet, some other poster who knew him said that he had died over the
    weekend.

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  • From jdeluise@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, May 21, 2026 16:49:25
    Pelle Svansl”s <pelle@svans.los> writes:

    On 21.5.2026 7.26, Scall5 wrote:
    Serious question. Anyone know why he stopped posting here?

    Maybe Marc Beckles of the Wilton tennis club in London
    knows. That's
    the club with the angry Fedfans. Iceberg was once jokingly
    rumoured to
    be Marc Beckles. Beckles is a former top 50 GB player.

    When he set up the "alternate" web-based tennis guessing contest,
    he left his name on the WHOIS record for the site. I only
    remember his name was Bob.

    I dunno, he seemed relatively serious about moving to Russia to
    take advantage of Putin's offer for immigrants. He probably died
    in Ukraine somewhere after being conscripted.

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