Re: //e

[CUTjblakeney@sentex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 7 Oct 2002 00:51:34 -0400, dalloff@gcfn.org (Dave Althoff Jr)
wrote:

>On an incompletely unrelated note, I'd like to give a shout here to David
>Empson.  Not to exclude anybody else, certainly, but I think David
>deserves a little recognition here...
>
>I've been using Apple ]['s since ca. 1981, and I've been an
>irregular reader of this newsgroup since ca. 1994.  Irregularly mostly
>because I just don't have time for all the traffic here as well as over on
>rec.roller-coaster where I normally hang out.  Anyway, for all of that
>time, David Empson has been patiently sharing his *encyclopaedic*
>knowledge of all things Apple ][, in spite of the recurring fits of
>nastiness that keep chasing people away from comp.sys.apple2.  Through all
>the arguments, noise, and flameage, David continues to share with us, and
>I swear, while I know a whole lot about Apples, every time he posts a
>message it seems he manages to teach me something new.  David, I'm very
>happy to see you're still here...and if ever anyone seemed to embody the
>spirit of USENET, you may well be the one.

Well, said Dave.

David always blows me away when he comes up with detailed and specific
answers to questions and then says something along the lines of "I'd
say more but I don't have my manuals handy" and here I was thinking he
was getting the info for his post FROM a manual.  :-)

So here's a big thank you from me too, David.

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