I'm sure that many of you here will remember Blinky the Shark and his
Usenet Improvement Project.
It was my understanding that Blinky died ~15 years ago; is that true?
I ask because somebody claiming to be Blinky has recently appeared.
from a domain registrar). Too bad no one upstanding and trustworthy
grabbed Blinky's content before twovoyagers decided to drop them.
I'm sure that many of you here will remember Blinky the Shark and his
Usenet Improvement Project.
It was my understanding that Blinky died ~15 years ago; is that true?
I ask because somebody claiming to be Blinky has recently appeared.
VanguardLH <[email protected]> posted:
from a domain registrar). Too bad no one upstanding and trustworthy
grabbed Blinky's content before twovoyagers decided to drop them.
It mostly seems to be just slagging off Google Groups as an interface to Usenet, which is only of historical significance now.
VanguardLH <[email protected]> posted:
Too bad no one upstanding and trustworthy grabbed Blinky's content
before twovoyagers decided to drop them.
It mostly seems to be just slagging off Google Groups as an interface
to Usenet, which is only of historical significance now.
In my opinion, these Google Groupers didn't really deserve to live. If someone can't setup and use a newsreader, and have to rely on a web
interface to access our beloved Usenet that belongs to us and only us,
they weren't really valuable to planet Earth.
After Blinky's death, and to prevent loss of his work, his pages were
moved to:
http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/
Alas, it disappeared from that site. According to web.archive.org, the
last copy of that web page at that site was from Jan 24, 2025:
Thank you again, Ralph. Sadly, that is indeed the confirmation
that I expected. RIP, Blinky The Shark, an example to us all.
A guess is that it's one of the alt.usenet.kook crew from way back
in its gory days before the Novins lawsuit. I have a name but I'd
better not divulge it in public in case I'm wrong. (email works)
Sn!pe wrote:
A guess is that it's one of the alt.usenet.kook crew from way back in
its gory days before the Novins lawsuit. I have a name but I'd better
not divulge it in public in case I'm wrong. (email works)
no way to investigate based on that?
it's disgusting what they're doing.
On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 22:44:32 +0100, Sn!pe wrote:
Thank you again, Ralph. Sadly, that is indeed the
confirmation that I expected. RIP, Blinky The Shark, an
example to us all.
So someone really sick is impersonating him...
On Sat, 23 Aug 2025 23:12:58 +0200, issdr wrote:
Sn!pe wrote:
A guess is that it's one of the alt.usenet.kook crew from way back in
its gory days before the Novins lawsuit. I have a name but I'd better
not divulge it in public in case I'm wrong. (email works)
no way to investigate based on that?
it's disgusting what they're doing.
Turns out, when I supposedly died alone, forgotten, and unloved by real-
life people who really knew me, four delusional souls showed up at my
pitiful funeral. My ex-wife and her brother and two weird and disgusting slobs from Usenet.
That's what I get for being a complete and total asshole and underhandedly devoting all my life and time and efforts to harming new users of Usenet
who weren't "cool" enough to use a newsreader.
What a sad motherfucker I really was, looking back. I didn't realize it then, because I am slightly mentally retarded, but I was a pretentious, overbearing, ostentatious, acrimonious, virulent prick whose main goal in life was to prevent others from enjoying life online in any way possible.
Why should anyone else be happy if I couldn't be?
Only on Usenet would people celebrate that type of person and hold him up
as an everlasting symbol of honorable intentions and pristine values. In retrospect, I was right at home in these bloody, nasty, polluted, foul
waters of Usenet where a demonic character is celebrated as ethical.
A pointless impersonation, as GG's access to Usenet has now been disconnected... which was pretty much the aim of Lee's UIP. So what's
the point in pretending to be him now?!
GG's access to Usenet has now
been disconnected... which was pretty much the aim of Lee's
UIP.
Blinky did not want to discontinue GG's *access* to Usenet for reading,
only to discontinue GG's *posting* to Usenet.
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