From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] Of login names
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 09:09:03 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160717230903.GK78278@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160717120522.951EE4422B@lignose.oclsc.org>
On Sunday, 17 July 2016 at 8:05:22 -0400, Norman Wilson wrote:
> Gr[aeiou]g Lehey:
>
> And I wanted greg@, but it was taken. So I ended up with grog@, and
> I've had that for nearly 30 years.
>
> =====
>
> I was !norman for some years, but when I left Bell
> Labs for the real world 26 years ago, I was forced
> to switch to norman at .
You've uncovered an inaccuracy in my statement. grog was the login,
of course, not primarily the email address, which was indeed !grog as
late as 1995. Unlike you, I never regretted the change away from
UUCP.
Greg
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2016-07-17 12:05 Norman Wilson
2016-07-17 12:32 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-17 23:09 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2016-07-18 4:06 ` scj
2016-07-18 4:09 ` Larry McVoy
2016-07-18 10:42 ` William Cheswick
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2016-07-18 15:44 Doug McIlroy
2016-07-18 15:50 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-07-18 18:03 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-18 18:12 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-18 14:35 Norman Wilson
2016-07-18 14:44 ` Mary Ann Horton
2016-07-18 14:55 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-18 18:07 ` Steve Simon
2016-07-19 9:50 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-26 12:45 ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-07-26 13:07 ` George Ross
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2016-07-18 14:06 ` David
2016-07-19 12:41 ` Aaron Jackson
2016-10-19 20:53 ` Michael-John Turner
2016-10-19 22:35 ` Aaron Jackson
2016-07-17 8:06 Rudi Blom
2016-07-17 8:16 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-17 11:42 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-17 22:59 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-18 0:37 ` Brantley Coile
2016-07-18 10:51 ` William Cheswick
2016-07-16 16:54 Dave Horsfall
2016-07-16 23:04 ` Paul Osborne
2016-07-18 12:24 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-18 13:21 ` John Cowan
2016-07-17 2:56 ` Win Treese
2016-07-17 6:39 ` Tim Bradshaw
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