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   Re: Marek says "hi"   
   20 Dec 22 16:14:27   
   
   From: do@not.spam   
      
   W dniu 20.12.2022 o 08:50, Aragorn pisze:   
   > Greetings everyone,   
   >   
   > As the title of this thread says, our old friend Marek Novotny has   
   > requested that I'd say "hi" to the people he knew while he was a Usenet   
   > resident.  Given that he was mostly active in alt.os.linux.ubuntu, I am   
   > posting this here. ;)   
   >   
   > Marek is not monitoring Usenet anymore, and he's also not even using   
   > GNU/Linux anymore.  He got himself an off-the-shelf laptop with   
   > MS-Windows and he's now primarily studying languages — the spoken kind,   
   > not programming languages; he has left that world behind him, although   
   > he does say that he misses it, and that he also misses the people here   
   > whom he had befriended.   
   >   
   > Anyway, just thought I'd pass on the message, in case any of the people   
   > from back in those days are still monitoring the group — I myself   
   > haven't seen any of them post in a very long time anymore either, so I   
   > don't know whether they're still lurking or whether they too have moved   
   > on toward greener pastures.   
   >   
   > Cheers! :)   
   >   
   Whew! This means Marek is alive! I remember you posted here, that he is   
   dead (having lost the war with Usenet trolls)! So happy it isn’t so!   
      
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