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Subject: Re: Where did Bob Hyat go ... :)

Author: Charles L. Williams

Date: 17:12:17 04/01/99

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On April 01, 1999 at 16:41:24, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>On April 01, 1999 at 16:06:21, Gareth McCaughan wrote:
>
>>[Eugene Nalimov:]
>>> He left this forum. He explained his reasons, but I beleive
>>> that his message was removed by the moderators.
>>
>>Could anyone explain, in terms that won't get their message removed,
>>what his reasons were?
>
>Some guy, writing from a secondary email provider, using a name that has as far
>as I can tell never appeared in a post written in r.g.c.c., unflatteringly (and
>probably maliciiously) characterized Bob and Bob's presence in r.g.c.c, and Bob
>wrote a response where he said something nasty about the guy or the guy's post
>or this general category of guy or this general category of post, or whatever.
>
>Day or so later Bob noticed that his thing was gone and the other guy's thing
>was still there, so he wrote something saying that he was leaving.
>
>Moderator response was that Bob's thing hadn't been deleted, but there was some
>problem that caused Bob not to see it for some period of time.  I think there
>was also some mention that the orignal thing had been left because the
>moderators hadn't seen it.
>
>That's where things stand as far as I know, although perhaps I missed something
>or am forgetting something.
>
>I think Bob is pretty frustrated in general by people who have been sniping at
>him for the last couple of years.
>
>I bet he calms down and comes back before long.
>
>bruce


I hope so.  Nobody has done more to help us develop our own programs than Bob
has.  I suspect he will return somewhere, perhaps a moderated newsgroup.

Chuck



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