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On Wed, 19 Oct 1994, Oded Feingold wrote:

> That was long ago indeed.  I'm embarrassed - I didn't recognize your
> name at first.
I'm not as distinguished as you.  I've also been less active in these groups.
 
> Wonder if Don Black lost his job in the big DEC flameouts...
Don appeared on the Sally Jessie Raphael show as the Grand Wazier of the 
Klu Klux Klan.  He actually seemed articulate and professional until the
producer (a blond haired blue eyed beautiful WASP woman) came out and 
asked if they were going to follow through on their threat to make the 
"wetback look stupid".  Suddenly, Don looked more like a redneck :-).
Two days later, there were no more postings from Don Black.

> If I recall right, _I_ should have been censured, for accusing Don
> Black of assassinating Samantha Smith and of being a KGB disinformant.
If rediculous accusations were federal crimes, the internet would still 
be only 3000 military system admins.

> I'm not sure Pat Steward is such a boon to the ecology, but what
> do I know?  The older I get, the more I realize my ignorance.
We have 25,000,000 new netters, many of whom get on via america on-line.  
It takes a lot of patience to keep gently reminding them to review the 
guidelines that were on the first level internet menu.  Pat does it with 
patience and humor.

> Nowadays, despite my MIT account, I'm a diagnostics programmer at EMC
> Corp, in Hopkinton MA.
Congratulations.

> What's with you?

I've been doing all sorts of things.  I helped the insurance industry 
switch from SNA to TCP/IP as a standard (which force the investment and 
banking community to follow suit).  I helped start the first "internet 
for idiots shareware product (softwin).  I've been getting commercial 
vendors and IPs (Dow Jones) to provide commercial services on the net.  
I'm divorced now (My ex never did like the dress, nice of her to tell me 
after 12 years).  I've just started dating again and have been playing in 
the personals.

> Cheers,
> Oded

From rballard@cnj.digex.net Mon Oct 24 01:30:36 1994