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Grex Agora Item 40: Archaeo-textual achievment
Entered by papa on Tue Apr 16 21:51:10 UTC 2019:

Today I finished reading (mostly just scrolled through, but hey, some of the
local Ann Arbor interests in 1993 were pretty obscure) the entire backlog of
posts in all the Backtalk conferences. 

Now flood me with new ones!

10 responses total.

#1 of 10 by mijk on Sat Jun 1 06:20:11 2019:

 \o/ Congratulations! I envy your dogged determination to know what everybody
has been talkinmg about these past thirty plus years. What now Papa!? A book
maybe? Maybe you could dump the whole lotonto Wikileaks ? :D Just kidding!

#2 of 10 by mijk on Sat Jun 1 06:25:57 2019:

Papa: i feel you deserve a cool beer or two. It is some achievement. I'll
raise a glass to you papa. What is your thoughts on going through the whole
baclklog? Any gold in those files?

#3 of 10 by papa on Sun Jun 2 01:01:47 2019:

Thank you! My next trick will be reading Dante's Inferno while programming
Roman date algorithms in C!

Watch out, or I may collect on that beer. ;)

To be honest, there were a lot of conference items that I just scrolled
through without reading. But I did discover a number of gems of forgotten
technology or pop culture from the early years of Grex. Incredible energy
poured into debates that became irrelevant more than 20 years ago. A few posts
that are strangely again relevant today. A little sad that so much life flowed
through this system back in the day but has faded to such a low ebb.

Check your e-mail. I'll send you a personal message.

#4 of 10 by mijk on Wed Jun 5 10:23:29 2019:

Phew! I thought there would be a million line txt file in my inbox (don't know
if emails can handle that size file? text editors like vim can, even old DOS
versions, (well 100k ish ) which suprised me at one time). I will bring plenty
of cash to the pub, incase you enjoy vintage champagne, by the litre papa ;).

#5 of 10 by papa on Thu Jun 6 04:01:27 2019:

By the Melchizedek! ;)

#6 of 10 by tod on Sat Jun 8 07:16:02 2019:

Where is this pub? Do they sing Bayu-Bayushki there?

#7 of 10 by papa on Sat Jun 8 19:56:59 2019:

It can probably be arranged.

#8 of 10 by tod on Tue Jun 11 05:49:35 2019:

"And now, ladies and gents...Baba Yaga on ukelele.."

#9 of 10 by lar on Sun Mar 8 20:35:57 2020:

I think the old archives on why valerie left grex is pretty awesome...you have
to cross reference those with the m-net ones though

#10 of 10 by tod on Mon Mar 9 21:24:37 2020:

I like to read those while listening to Gogol Bordello

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