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Until recently I used a despammed.com address as my contact address for Usenet. It recently went belly-up. For info on mypacks.net:

I thought about it, but decided against that. I check my main mail account frequently, and the mypacks.net address goes into it. I'm far more likely to get a message from someone if I use it.

Since starting with Earthlink, I've only used their news server. Before that, I was with a different ISP, and I used theirs. And so on back to my original dpnet.net address.

That's about right, I guess. I haven't been very active this year. Google Groups shows thousands of Usenet posts attributed to me since 1998-11-03 08:40 in newsgroup alt.psychology.nlp.

Believe it or not, I have a life. It isn't much of one, but it's there. My job and my girlfriend both want a lot of my time. And by the way, I'm running OS-2, Linux, and -- occasionally -- Windows XP. I have a Windows 98 parbreastion available, but I don't use it and should probably just do away with it.

What an odd thing to say. My post is obviously not trolling, and you and I exchanged quite a few e-mails some time back. You know who I am.

You're in my killfile, Alan. I wouldn't have known you posted this at all if I hadn't been messing around in Google Groups from work. After you went nuts on me in e-mail and told me you'd be filtering my messages from then on, I killfiled you in SLRN so I wouldn't inadvertently respond to you here. If you're filtering me in your newsreader based on my e-mail address, add the mypacks.net address.

I imagine people in general don't like you much after they exchange a few messages with you. I was disappointed, though, because I was sort of getting into our conversation. We weren't agreeing on everything, but I thought we were discussing things well.

"Michael DeBusk" is it. I've never posted under any other name in Usenet. Unless I posted under "Mike DeBusk" at some point.

I responded to this as a courtesy to you because I found that you had responded to my earlier query. Thank you, too, for that. Remember, though, Alan, that you're in my killfile. I won't see any response you post to this message. If you drop me an e-mail (the mypacks.net address *is* good) and let me know that your killfile entry is no longer necessary, I'll remove it.

Incidentally, regarding all the troll-bashing you do... you seem like an intelligent guy, so I buttume you've read Don Quixote. Brilliant book, and the protagonist is a fine man. It's a shame that people tend to remember only that he attacked a windmill once.