From: ab.chaplin@yourfinger.rogers.com   
      
   victoriashipmaker@gmail.com wrote in   
   news:166b73aa-fa9c-4bd8-a07e-07f2bc5bd8a7@googlegroups.com:   
      
   > On Saturday, 25 October 2003 15:43:27 UTC-4, av8r  wrote:   
   >> Hi Gang   
   >>   
   >> I was going through some old e-mail and came across this one from Rick   
   >> Collins.  I'd like to share it with you.   
   >>   
   >> Cheers...Chris   
   >>   
   >>    
   >> Take care   
   >> Rick   
   >   
   > Hi!  It does not look like this group is very active anymore but on the   
   > offchance someone sees this...   
   >   
   > I'm Rick's daughter and I stumbled on this group quite accidentally.   
   > Its a bit of a shock to see this with it being ten years since he has   
   > passed!  We are sorry that so many people who knew my Dad weren't   
   > informed of his death but he had a lot of contacts.  I can see that he   
   > was his usual self with this group :)  I do note that he mentions a job   
   > that he held with the "spooks" - I assume this is CSIS - you know, we   
   > were never sure whether he was pulling our leg or not!  Blessings to   
   > anyone who reads this that knew him - or at least the side he showed on   
   > the boards!  Victoria   
      
   Victoria, you're right, few, if any, posts to this newsgroup. I check it   
   occasionally, but rarely have reason to post.   
      
   I encountered your father on CCM, then made his acquaintance in real life   
   when I was briefly a staff wallah at NDHQ. He was something of an acquired   
   taste, as he was difficult to read when you could not see the facial   
   expressions to go with what he was writing. He was certainly good at   
   pointing out weaknesses in people's arguments and, frequently with a   
   justifiable perversity, winding up his interlocutors so that they would   
   reduce their arguments to the absurd.   
      
   Just a note, NDHQ has a "spook world" too: it refers to the defence   
   intelligence community and its associated occupations. They always have a   
   few people from operational occupations in the mix to keep them honest; I   
   suspect your dad was one of those.   
      
   I miss your father. He deserved to make much older bones.   
   --   
   Andrew Chaplin   
   SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO   
   (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.)   
      
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