Can you believe it's only been fourteen years since we stumbled
into this odd little corner of the world together?
For those lacking Jim Ellwanger's tenure -- back in the early
days of afcob, when Late Night was hanging on 13-week renewals and even
at one point was cancelled-but-not-publicly-cancelled, I stumbled across
the group. What happened was the Unix lab I normally used to putter
around online at the time was closed for some reason, so I found there
was a Mac lab which was open. They didn't have the nn newsreader, alas,
but they did have what I guess must have been MT-Newsreader, which let
me see not just the group I was looking for -- alt.fan.cecil-adams --
but also some groups awfully close to it in alphabetical order. It
looked really quite interesting.
Anyway, one of the attractions when I got on was the clever,
sharp postings of Al Bell, whom I naturally assumed to be one of the
grand masters of the newsgroup. She's gone off having a life since
then, but she still looks in occasionally, and I hope she's feeling
good today.
--
Joseph Nebus
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