Re: Missing OPs (was: Re: dynupdater not seeming to do anything)

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Sun 31 Jul 2022 at 20:10:44 (-0000), Curt wrote:
> On 2022-07-31, rhkramer@gmail.com <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday, July 31, 2022 07:50:54 AM Curt wrote:
> >> Maybe the OP (who's disappeared anyway, as they
> >> often do) should look there.
> >
> > Hmm, what's the criteria for determining a missing OP?  Looks like his first 
> > post was at 10:55 last night, so when you wrote this, he hadn't been heard 
> > from or seen in about 9 hours, so the police won't take a missing persons 
> > report yet.
> >
> > To me, one of the advantages of email is asynchronous communitication.
> 
> Well, we already had epistolary communication and carrier pigeons, so
> for me it's the rapidity. But that's really not what I was getting on
> about. Sometimes people ask a question here and are never heard of
> again. It happens. But not this time.
> 
> He'll disppear eventually, though. Not that I want him to, mind you. 

I guess twenty years just doesn't suffice to be considered as an
ordinary subscriber.

Cheers,
David.