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   George J. Dance to W.Dockery   
   Re: Usenet newsgroups in 2025 (2/2)   
   31 Jan 25 06:46:36   
   
   [continued from previous message]   
      
   As far as I remember, no one reported spam here; we "skipped and   
   ignored" it in those days.   
      
   >> OTOH, various sites that had gone out of use, had become dumping grounds   
   >> for spam.  IMHO, AAPC was well on its way to becoming one of those   
   >> dumping grounds.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>>> Your lie doesn't even make sense; if there wree only two people posting   
   >>>>> on aapc, then who was supposedly getting "fed up" with them?   
   >   
   > Exactly.   
   >   
   > There was Gray Gamble, JRS, Karla Rogers, Tom Bishop, Cook...   
      
   Tom died in 2007. (I just looked it up on PPP; a great asset.)   
      
   > The list of regulars of that era is long.   
   >   
   >>>> Are you really that dense, George?   
   >   
   > Back to your childish insults already, Pendragon?   
      
   Does he ever stop?   
      
   >>>> When I first came here in 2010, had just driven all of the   
   >>>> others away.   
   >   
   > That's absurd, not to mention a blatant lie.   
   >   
   >>> Will did not "drive away" either your Chimp or the Conman, as noted.   
   >>> Neither did he drive away "PJR" and his assorted trolls, who were still   
   >>> here until about 2016 or so. As I told you, you were trying to rewrite   
   >>> history; give is up.   
   >   
   > Why does Michael Pendragon lie and misrepresent so much?   
      
   As I said a while back, I think it comes from being abused as a child.   
   Which reminds me; that thread's been sitting without any activity for a   
   while.   
      
   >>>> I can only assume that they were the "regulars" PJR was   
   >>>> always referring to, but who were long gone when I started posting   
   >>>> regularly in 2015.   
   >>>   
   >>> Since Piggy Ross was referring to them, he obviously had not been   
   >>> "driven away" even by 2014 (when you actually began posting), either.   
   >>   
   >> Please stop with the childish name-calling   
   >   
   > Look who's talking.   
   >   
   > 😏   
   >   
   >> In 2014, Peter Ross only dropped by the group sporadically.  When he did   
   >> so (and only when he did so), other posters would suddenly materialize   
   >> to take part in the conversations he'd initiate (Horatio, Gwyneth, Cujo,   
   >> Aratzio, etc.).   
   >>   
   >> The impression I received was that the group had dwindled down to three   
   >> regularly posting members: Will, Corey, and you; and that PJR was a   
   >> former member who would arrive out of nowhere with an entourage -- and   
   >> depart just as suddenly with them in tow.   
   >   
   > Yes, and it wouldn't surprise me to see PJR back here at any time.   
   >   
   >>> Nor was his online friend Gary Gamble (who was posting under a different   
   >>> sock), nor his flunkie Cujo de Sockpuppet, It was a pretty lively list   
   >>> in those days. There were lots of people on aapc, both in 2010 and in   
   >>> 2014.   
   >>   
   >> AFAIK, Gary Gamble never posted here since I've been around.   
   >   
   > Gary Gamble used another name for the last years he posted here.   
   >   
   > George Dance might remember the moniker GG used at the end, I don't,   
   > right now.   
      
   "Generic". I used to call him "The Generic Troll."   
      
   > And so it was.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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