I've not been active for a while but over the last few days I have been rekindling my interest in the group. Some of the old regulars are still in evidence, some are seemingly not. Does Geoff of CET still contribute?

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Does Geoff of CET still contribute?

Not for a good couple of years now, I think he's still in the business,
others have probably had contact with him "off list"

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wrote:

Does Geoff of CET still contribute?

Not for a good couple of years now, I think he's still in the business,
others have probably had contact with him "off list"



Geoff is well and so is CET.

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Hi Adam. I recall you used to post entertaining cctv occasionally. Are your neighbours still creating enjoyment? :-)

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Hi Adam. I recall you used to post entertaining cctv occasionally. Are
your neighbours still creating enjoyment? :-)


I have new neighbours.

Paul that did the driveway (that CCTV?) got two years for money laundering -
I would have given him 6 years for the driveway he laid:-)



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wrote in message
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Hi Adam. I recall you used to post entertaining cctv occasionally. Are
your neighbours still creating enjoyment? :-)


I have new neighbours.

Paul that did the driveway (that CCTV?) got two years for money laundering -
I would have given him 6 years for the driveway he laid:-)

I would have thought that if he had money to launder, he would
have found some money to get the driveway done properly. ;-)

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Does Geoff of CET still contribute?

Posted as Radon or Raden?

Interesting to be reminded of names, sometimes. Makes me realise that
regulars are suddenly no longer posting, and I do wonder why. Not just
here, but other groups and forums.

Andy Hall of course, but another chap, an old boy, who was an expert on
wooden floor cleaning etc. Unusual name, which I cannot remember.

Then there was the younger lad, working with his father, renovating a
barn. Seemed to be able to turn his hand to almost anything.

Grunff. Frank Irskine. Steve Firth. John Stumbles.

Just a few names that come to mind.

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Graeme

On Wednesday, November 4, 2015 at 8:19:28 AM UTC, News wrote:
In message ,
writes

Does Geoff of CET still contribute?

Posted as Radon or Raden?

Interesting to be reminded of names, sometimes. Makes me realise that
regulars are suddenly no longer posting, and I do wonder why. Not just
here, but other groups and forums.

Andy Hall of course, but another chap, an old boy, who was an expert on
wooden floor cleaning etc. Unusual name, which I cannot remember.

Then there was the younger lad, working with his father, renovating a
barn. Seemed to be able to turn his hand to almost anything.

Grunff. Frank Irskine. Steve Firth. John Stumbles.

Just a few names that come to mind.

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I used to enjoy the posts from "Mary" about bread ovens etc.
Simon.

In message ,
sm_jamieson writes

I used to enjoy the posts from "Mary" about bread ovens etc.

Indeed. I'm embarrassed now, though, as doubtless I have overlooked
people. I did enjoy the posts by the guy renovating the barn. He used
to post fascinating images, too.
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Graeme

On 04/11/2015 08:18, News wrote:
In message ,
writes

Does Geoff of CET still contribute?

Posted as Radon or Raden?

Interesting to be reminded of names, sometimes. Makes me realise that
regulars are suddenly no longer posting, and I do wonder why. Not just
here, but other groups and forums.

Andy Hall of course, but another chap, an old boy, who was an expert on
wooden floor cleaning etc. Unusual name, which I cannot remember.

Charles (Joe) Stahelin by any chance?

Some of their accumulated wisdom has been captured in the faq and wiki
of course...

http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php/Floor_polishing

http://www.diyfaq.org.uk/andyhalloffame.htm

Then there was the younger lad, working with his father, renovating a
barn. Seemed to be able to turn his hand to almost anything.

Grunff. Frank Irskine. Steve Firth. John Stumbles.

Grunff, too busy building web based businesses last time I spoke to
him... See http://www.symworks.com/

Lots of stuff by John in the Wiki, and also on his own site:

yaph.co.uk

Just a few names that come to mind.




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John Rumm wrote:
On 04/11/2015 08:18, News wrote:
In message ,
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Does Geoff of CET still contribute?

Posted as Radon or Raden?

Interesting to be reminded of names, sometimes. Makes me realise that
regulars are suddenly no longer posting, and I do wonder why. Not just
here, but other groups and forums.

Andy Hall of course, but another chap, an old boy, who was an expert on
wooden floor cleaning etc. Unusual name, which I cannot remember.

Charles (Joe) Stahelin by any chance?

Some of their accumulated wisdom has been captured in the faq and wiki
of course...

http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php/Floor_polishing

http://www.diyfaq.org.uk/andyhalloffame.htm

Then there was the younger lad, working with his father, renovating a
barn. Seemed to be able to turn his hand to almost anything.

Grunff. Frank Irskine. Steve Firth. John Stumbles.

Grunff, too busy building web based businesses last time I spoke to
him... See http://www.symworks.com/

Lots of stuff by John in the Wiki, and also on his own site:

yaph.co.uk

Just a few names that come to mind.


Matthew Marks? What happened him?

Tim

In message , Tim+
writes
John Rumm wrote:
On 04/11/2015 08:18, News wrote:
In message ,
writes

Does Geoff of CET still contribute?

Posted as Radon or Raden?

Interesting to be reminded of names, sometimes. Makes me realise that
regulars are suddenly no longer posting, and I do wonder why. Not just
here, but other groups and forums.

Andy Hall of course, but another chap, an old boy, who was an expert on
wooden floor cleaning etc. Unusual name, which I cannot remember.

Charles (Joe) Stahelin by any chance?

Some of their accumulated wisdom has been captured in the faq and wiki
of course...

http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php/Floor_polishing

http://www.diyfaq.org.uk/andyhalloffame.htm

Then there was the younger lad, working with his father, renovating a
barn. Seemed to be able to turn his hand to almost anything.

Grunff. Frank Irskine. Steve Firth. John Stumbles.

Grunff, too busy building web based businesses last time I spoke to
him... See http://www.symworks.com/

Lots of stuff by John in the Wiki, and also on his own site:

yaph.co.uk

Just a few names that come to mind.


Matthew Marks? What happened him?


Dunno, but it must be many years (10+ ?) since he posted here.

People come and go for all sorts of reasons - I've been away for chunks
of time over the years.

uk.d-i-y is still an active group, but in common with other newsgroups
it seems to suffering from a drop in posters. The number of people
coming new to newsgroups (well text groups, binary groups might be
different) is pretty small it would seem
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Chris French

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Chris French wrote:
uk.d-i-y is still an active group, but in common with other newsgroups
it seems to suffering from a drop in posters. The number of people
coming new to newsgroups (well text groups, binary groups might be
different) is pretty small it would seem

Other thing is anyone first looking at uk.d-i-y now would probably
conclude that there is so much OT ****e that they can't be bothered wading
through it to find the genuine stuff.

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*Do they ever shut up on your planet?

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On 04/11/2015 18:04, Tim+ wrote:
John Rumm wrote:

Just a few names that come to mind.


Matthew Marks? What happened him?

Matthew did a lot of the work on original FAQ ... not heard from him in
while

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Tim+ writes:

Matthew Marks? What happened him?

I spoke with him some time after he left here (still at the BBC).
He did the first FAQ.

The UK homebuild forum ripped large chunks of it off, removed the
contributors' copyright notices including those from Mark, myself,
and others, and stuck it up on their Wiki as theirs.

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Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

In message , John
Rumm writes
On 04/11/2015 08:18, News wrote:

Andy Hall of course, but another chap, an old boy, who was an expert on
wooden floor cleaning etc. Unusual name, which I cannot remember.

Charles (Joe) Stahelin by any chance?

Yes! Thank you.

Good to know others are still around, too.
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Graeme

In message , News
writes
In message , John
Rumm writes
On 04/11/2015 08:18, News wrote:

Andy Hall of course, but another chap, an old boy, who was an expert on
wooden floor cleaning etc. Unusual name, which I cannot remember.

Charles (Joe) Stahelin by any chance?

Yes! Thank you.

Good to know others are still around, too.

I view of our collective average age, some mechanism for a final sign
off might be useful.

How many wives, offspring, executors are likely to know what a newsgroup
is? Or that anyone here might actually care!

--
Tim Lamb

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Tim Lamb wrote:
I view of our collective average age, some mechanism for a final sign
off might be useful.

Heh heh.

How many wives, offspring, executors are likely to know what a newsgroup
is? Or that anyone here might actually care!

Text only mediums are not, apparently, what the public want. They need to
be able to post pics.

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*Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

In message , Tim Lamb
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How many wives, offspring, executors are likely to know what a
newsgroup is? Or that anyone here might actually care!

Interesting point. My wife used to use Usenet 10+ years ago. Son, now
14, is vaguely aware of Usenet, but has never used it.

There is more to it than that, though. Most of us probably provide at
least basic password protection for our various devices, including
laptops and desktops. Do our family members know those passwords?
Beyond that, most mailing lists and forums require passwords. Yes, of
course, others could access through their own devices, but without
access to ours, would they even know which groups we belong to or
contribute to?
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Graeme

"Tim Lamb" wrote in message
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In message , News
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In message , John Rumm
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On 04/11/2015 08:18, News wrote:

Andy Hall of course, but another chap, an old boy, who was an expert on
wooden floor cleaning etc. Unusual name, which I cannot remember.

Charles (Joe) Stahelin by any chance?

Yes! Thank you.

Good to know others are still around, too.

I view of our collective average age, some mechanism for a final sign off
might be useful.

Yeah, but not that easy even in real life with everyone.

How many wives, offspring, executors are likely to know what a newsgroup
is? Or that anyone here might actually care!

On 05/11/2015 09:23, Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , News
writes
In message , John
Rumm writes
On 04/11/2015 08:18, News wrote:

Andy Hall of course, but another chap, an old boy, who was an expert on
wooden floor cleaning etc. Unusual name, which I cannot remember.

Charles (Joe) Stahelin by any chance?

Yes! Thank you.

Good to know others are still around, too.

I view of our collective average age, some mechanism for a final sign
off might be useful.

Kind of like a dead man's handle? If you don't check the group for 90
days it automatically posts you obituary ;-)

Indeed it is hard to tell why someone vanished... Some deaths we know
about (Andy Hall, Stefek Zaba are two that spring to mind). Others like
Mary Fisher just gave up posting here, but have been spotted in the real
world.

Others like Christian McArdle (sp?) seemed to just vanish from usenet
completely on a certain date but were if memory serves relatively young.

How many wives, offspring, executors are likely to know what a newsgroup
is? Or that anyone here might actually care!

That could be an interesting section in a will; how to find usenet and
make an announcement!


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Cormaic the Paving Expert, Ed Sirrett et al

On 05/11/2015 11:20, wrote:

Cormaic the Paving Expert, Ed Sirrett et al

Cormaic, long time gone (from here) but still maintains his huge and
comprehensive web site:

http://www.pavingexpert.com/

(also wrote a book on the subject)

Not sure what happened to Ed, he even pulled down his own site at some
point - we had to rescue some of his FAQs (gas fitting, boiler repair
etc, now on the wiki) from the wayback machine archive.


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On 05/11/2015 11:20, wrote:
Cormaic the Paving Expert, Ed Sirrett et al



Cormaic is still going well ... on his own site

On 04/11/2015 08:18, News wrote:
In message ,
writes

Does Geoff of CET still contribute?

Posted as Radon or Raden?

Interesting to be reminded of names, sometimes. Makes me realise that
regulars are suddenly no longer posting, and I do wonder why. Not just
here, but other groups and forums.

Andy Hall of course, but another chap, an old boy, who was an expert on
wooden floor cleaning etc. Unusual name, which I cannot remember.

Then there was the younger lad, working with his father, renovating a
barn. Seemed to be able to turn his hand to almost anything.

Grunff. Frank Irskine. Steve Firth. John Stumbles.

Just a few names that come to mind.



When I first started with this group it was access via trn in 1995,
group was less than a year old.
The WWW had not yet arrived, nobody had internet at home ...and getting
access to information was not easy.

Having the forum limited to text was not particularly easy .. for
example if you wanted to add a diagram it meant lots of fun using ASCII
art. Linking to a picture hosting site was not an option.

Once forums became more prevalent with ease of adding pictures,
diagrams, videos, etc ... the use of Newsgroups diminished. Several I
use have massively reduced in volume of posts.

There are now several on line UK DIY forums with easily used gui access
........ some are useful, some have become a business in their own right,
funded by adverts.

This group initially had almost zero spam, and questions were answered
or debated sometimes with humour, but the trolls did not exist .... so
insults and offence did not happen.

Now you have both.

On 03/11/2015 19:46, wrote:
I've not been active for a while but over the last few days I have
been rekindling my interest in the group. Some of the old regulars
are still in evidence, some are seemingly not. Does Geoff of CET
still contribute?



There was a way to post the names of the top 50 (or whatever
contributors) .. Matthew Marks posted this once or twice.

In article ,
rick writes:
On 03/11/2015 19:46, wrote:
I've not been active for a while but over the last few days I have
been rekindling my interest in the group. Some of the old regulars
are still in evidence, some are seemingly not. Does Geoff of CET
still contribute?

There was a way to post the names of the top 50 (or whatever
contributors) .. Matthew Marks posted this once or twice.

I generated the list for some purpose I've forgotten
(might have been for a collective response to the Part
P building regs). I did it by running a script across
my newspool.

People asked me to post it periodically but I refused.
It's a very bad idea because people compete to move up
it, and that generates significant noise and no signal.
Saw that happen in other newsgroups at the time.

--
Andrew Gabriel
[email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]

On 05/11/2015 20:11, rick wrote:
On 03/11/2015 19:46, wrote:
I've not been active for a while but over the last few days I have
been rekindling my interest in the group. Some of the old regulars
are still in evidence, some are seemingly not. Does Geoff of CET
still contribute?



There was a way to post the names of the top 50 (or whatever
contributors) .. Matthew Marks posted this once or twice.

The old google groups interface did a rather good synopsis of this, but
they somehow broke it along the way and the real numbers seem to be
gone. The top posters in the days of Andy Hall were already over 35,000
posts! I suspect a few of us have romped through that threshold now.


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John.

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On 05/11/2015 23:07, John Rumm wrote:
On 05/11/2015 20:11, rick wrote:
On 03/11/2015 19:46, wrote:
I've not been active for a while but over the last few days I have
been rekindling my interest in the group. Some of the old regulars
are still in evidence, some are seemingly not. Does Geoff of CET
still contribute?



There was a way to post the names of the top 50 (or whatever
contributors) .. Matthew Marks posted this once or twice.

The old google groups interface did a rather good synopsis of this, but
they somehow broke it along the way and the real numbers seem to be
gone. The top posters in the days of Andy Hall were already over 35,000
posts! I suspect a few of us have romped through that threshold now.

You get something like it here, but the numbers were reset some time ago
for the "all time" rankings which now only reach back a few years.
Still I suppose it shows just how much crap is posted wodney.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!aboutgroup/uk.d-i-y


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John.

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