Re: search engine/mainframetech

On Monday, March 8, 2021 at 1:10:40 PM UTC-6, John Corbett wrote:
> On Monday, March 8, 2021 at 8:58:33 AM UTC-5, John McAdams wrote: 
> > On 7 Mar 2021 21:44:35 -0000, John Corbett <[email protected]> 
> > wrote: 
> > >On Sunday, March 7, 2021 at 12:34:44 PM UTC-5, Bud wrote: 
> > >> I was looking for a newsgroup search engine since it seems that new 
> > >> google groups doesn`t have one (that I can find). I found this one called 
> > >> "narkive", it might serve if you know one of the words in the header of 
> > >> the post you are looking for. Anyway, I punched in bigdog`s nemesis 
> > >> "mainframetech" and got this... 
> > >> 
> > >> https://narkive.com/search?q=mainframetech 
> > >> 
> > >> Seems he frequented medical boards, and in one post he says he has 
> > >> kidney disease and high blood pressure (and that post is from nine years 
> > >> ago). Seems unlikely he is still with us. 
> > > 
> > >Generally when a prolific poster suddenly stops posting, it's only natural 
> > >to think the worst. Same thing happened with Rossley although you could 
> > >tell from his often garbled posts that he was having some serious health 
> > >issues well before his passing. 
> > Interesting that even somebody who is quite a pain in the ass is 
> > missed, and mourned at least a bit when they go. 
> > 
> > Sometimes, basic humanity breaks through, even on message boards. 
> >
> Does anybody know what Chris's full name was or where he was from? I don't 
> recall him ever giving that information away.

No.  But I assumed the worst when he stopped posting a while back.  
Suspect Harris has serious medical issues too, though his one or two posts 
about here and there convinced me he's not dead yet.

Brock