[Dixonary] [OT] - Sad news

[Dodi Schultz]

I'm very sorry to report that long-time Dixonary player Scott Crom died on
Thursday. I received the news yesterday from his daughter, Kathryn Holmes*.
He was 85. Until his retirement, he was a professor of philosophy at Beloit
College in Wisconsin. I'm pretty sure he was a member of this group long
before I was, maybe even from the start of the game back in '89. (Mike, do
your records include such data?)

Kathy didn't give the cause of his death. Scott and I had corresponded over
the years, having shared a devotion to WordPerfect, a horror of certain
current trends, and an addiction to a number of TV offerings, mainly police
procedurals. I know that he was in relatively good health, except for a
lifelong familial neurological problem that affected balance and, recently,
fading eyesight (he'd stopped submitting defs a while back for fear of
winning the deal, and in the last couple of months had ceased voting as
well). But he'd received a pretty clean bill of health at a routine checkup
in May and was still cleaning his house, cooking for himself (his wife died
about 20 years ago), and hosting weekly Quaker meetings.

*I hesitate to post her e-mail address here. If you'd like to have it in
order to write to her, please let me know and I'll provide it privately.

—Dodi

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[France International/Mike Shefler]

That is sad. PLease convey my condolences to his daughter.

My records indicate Scott started on round 24. Of active players, only
Toni Savage started earlier, and she has been more inactive than active
lately.

Mike

On 8/3/2013 11:21 AM, Dodi Schultz wrote:
>
> I'm very sorry to report that long-time Dixonary player Scott Crom
> died on Thursday. I received the news yesterday from his daughter,
> Kathryn Holmes*. He was 85. Until his retirement, he was a professor
> of philosophy at Beloit College in Wisconsin. I'm pretty sure he was a
> member of this group long before I was, maybe even from the start of
> the game back in '89. (Mike, do your records include such data?)
>
> Kathy didn't give the cause of his death. Scott and I had corresponded
> over the years, having shared a devotion to WordPerfect, a horror of
> certain current trends, and an addiction to a number of TV offerings,
> mainly police procedurals. I know that he was in relatively good
> health, except for a lifelong familial neurological problem that
> affected balance and, recently, fading eyesight (he'd stopped
> submitting defs a while back for fear of winning the deal, and in the
> last couple of months had ceased voting as well). But he'd received a
> pretty clean bill of health at a routine checkup in May and was still
> cleaning his house, cooking for himself (his wife died about 20 years
> ago), and hosting weekly Quaker meetings.
>
> *I hesitate to post her e-mail address here. If you'd like to have it
> in order to write to her, please let me know and I'll provide it
> privately.
>
> —Dodi
>

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[thejazzmonger]

Man, oh man. You are correct, Dodi, Scott was around almost from the
beginning. He was a part of the Tapcis Forum on CompuServe before I found
my way there.

I'm not sure he played the very beginning rounds. I joined somewhere around
#12. The game was begun over one Fourth of July weekend when Theresa Carey
got bored and prodded Neil Rubenking and some other Tapcis denizens into
playing a round. That was fun enough that they kept going for a while
and... here we are.

Scott was certainly a part of the mix while the game was still in double
digit rounds. Good player. Fun guy, who competed in the most entertaining
and gentlemanly sense.


On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Dodi Schultz <DodiSchultz (AT) verizon (DOT) net>wrote:

>
> I'm very sorry to report that long-time Dixonary player Scott Crom died on
> Thursday. I received the news yesterday from his daughter, Kathryn Holmes*.
> He was 85. Until his retirement, he was a professor of philosophy at Beloit
> College in Wisconsin. I'm pretty sure he was a member of this group long
> before I was, maybe even from the start of the game back in '89. (Mike, do
> your records include such data?)
>
> Kathy didn't give the cause of his death. Scott and I had corresponded
> over the years, having shared a devotion to WordPerfect, a horror of
> certain current trends, and an addiction to a number of TV offerings,
> mainly police procedurals. I know that he was in relatively good health,
> except for a lifelong familial neurological problem that affected balance
> and, recently, fading eyesight (he'd stopped submitting defs a while back
> for fear of winning the deal, and in the last couple of months had ceased
> voting as well). But he'd received a pretty clean bill of health at a
> routine checkup in May and was still cleaning his house, cooking for
> himself (his wife died about 20 years ago), and hosting weekly Quaker
> meetings.
>
> *I hesitate to post her e-mail address here. If you'd like to have it in
> order to write to her, please let me know and I'll provide it privately.
>
> —Dodi
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[France International/Mike Shefler]

I have you starting on round 15. Scott started in round 24.

--Mike



On 8/3/2013 12:04 PM, thejazzmonger wrote:




Man, oh man. You are correct, Dodi, Scott was around almost from the beginning. He was a part of the Tapcis Forum on CompuServe before I found my way there.*






I'm not sure he played the very beginning rounds. I joined somewhere around #12. The game was begun over one Fourth of July weekend when Theresa Carey got bored and prodded Neil Rubenking and some other Tapcis denizens into playing a round. That was fun enough that they kept going for a while and... here we are.








Scott was certainly a part of the mix while the game was still in double digit rounds. Good player. Fun guy, who competed in the most entertaining and gentlemanly sense.









On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Dodi Schultz &lt;DodiSchultz (AT) verizon (DOT) net&gt; wrote:

I'm very sorry to report that long-time Dixonary player Scott Crom died on Thursday. I received the news yesterday from his daughter, Kathryn Holmes*. He was 85. Until his retirement, he was a professor of philosophy at Beloit College in Wisconsin. I'm pretty sure he was a member of this group long before I was, maybe even from the start of the game back in '89. (Mike, do your records include such data?)

Kathy didn't give the cause of his death. Scott and I had corresponded over the years, having shared a devotion to WordPerfect, a horror of certain current trends, and an addiction to a number of TV offerings, mainly police procedurals. I know that he was in relatively good health, except for a lifelong familial neurological problem that affected balance and, recently, fading eyesight (he'd stopped submitting defs a while back for fear of winning the deal, and in the last couple of months had ceased voting as well). But he'd received a pretty clean bill of health at a routine checkup in May and was still cleaning his house, cooking for himself (his wife died about 20 years ago), and hosting weekly Quaker meetings.

*I hesitate to post her e-mail address here. If you'd like to have it in order to write to her, please let me know and I'll provide it privately.

—Dodi

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[Hugo Kornelis]

I am very sorry to hear that, Dodi.

Can you please pass my condolences to Scott's daughter?

Cheers,
Hugo

Op 3-8-2013 17:21, Dodi Schultz schreef:
>
> I'm very sorry to report that long-time Dixonary player Scott Crom
> died on Thursday. I received the news yesterday from his daughter,
> Kathryn Holmes*. He was 85. Until his retirement, he was a professor
> of philosophy at Beloit College in Wisconsin. I'm pretty sure he was a
> member of this group long before I was, maybe even from the start of
> the game back in '89. (Mike, do your records include such data?)
>
> Kathy didn't give the cause of his death. Scott and I had corresponded
> over the years, having shared a devotion to WordPerfect, a horror of
> certain current trends, and an addiction to a number of TV offerings,
> mainly police procedurals. I know that he was in relatively good
> health, except for a lifelong familial neurological problem that
> affected balance and, recently, fading eyesight (he'd stopped
> submitting defs a while back for fear of winning the deal, and in the
> last couple of months had ceased voting as well). But he'd received a
> pretty clean bill of health at a routine checkup in May and was still
> cleaning his house, cooking for himself (his wife died about 20 years
> ago), and hosting weekly Quaker meetings.
>
> *I hesitate to post her e-mail address here. If you'd like to have it
> in order to write to her, please let me know and I'll provide it
> privately.
>
> —Dodi
>

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[John Barrs]

Please pass my condolences to his daughter too.

JohnnyB


On 3 August 2013 16:21, Dodi Schultz <DodiSchultz (AT) verizon (DOT) net> wrote:

>
> I'm very sorry to report that long-time Dixonary player Scott Crom died on
> Thursday. I received the news yesterday from his daughter, Kathryn Holmes*.
> He was 85. Until his retirement, he was a professor of philosophy at Beloit
> College in Wisconsin. I'm pretty sure he was a member of this group long
> before I was, maybe even from the start of the game back in '89. (Mike, do
> your records include such data?)
>
> Kathy didn't give the cause of his death. Scott and I had corresponded
> over the years, having shared a devotion to WordPerfect, a horror of
> certain current trends, and an addiction to a number of TV offerings,
> mainly police procedurals. I know that he was in relatively good health,
> except for a lifelong familial neurological problem that affected balance
> and, recently, fading eyesight (he'd stopped submitting defs a while back
> for fear of winning the deal, and in the last couple of months had ceased
> voting as well). But he'd received a pretty clean bill of health at a
> routine checkup in May and was still cleaning his house, cooking for
> himself (his wife died about 20 years ago), and hosting weekly Quaker
> meetings.
>
> *I hesitate to post her e-mail address here. If you'd like to have it in
> order to write to her, please let me know and I'll provide it privately.
>
> —Dodi
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[Judy Madnick]

Maybe instead of individual messages, one message with all our names would work?

Judy



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Subject: Re: [Dixonary] [OT] - Sad news

I am very sorry to hear that, Dodi.

Can you please pass my condolences to Scott's daughter?

Cheers,
Hugo

Op 3-8-2013 17:21, Dodi Schultz schreef:
>
> I'm very sorry to report that long-time Dixonary player Scott Crom
> died on Thursday. I received the news yesterday from his daughter,
> Kathryn Holmes*. He was 85. Until his retirement, he was a professor
> of philosophy at Beloit College in Wisconsin. I'm pretty sure he was a
> member of this group long before I was, maybe even from the start of
> the game back in '89. (Mike, do your records include such data?)
>
> Kathy didn't give the cause of his death. Scott and I had corresponded
> over the years, having shared a devotion to WordPerfect, a horror of
> certain current trends, and an addiction to a number of TV offerings,
> mainly police procedurals. I know that he was in relatively good
> health, except for a lifelong familial neurological problem that
> affected balance and, recently, fading eyesight (he'd stopped
> submitting defs a while back for fear of winning the deal, and in the
> last couple of months had ceased voting as well). But he'd received a
> pretty clean bill of health at a routine checkup in May and was still
> cleaning his house, cooking for himself (his wife died about 20 years
> ago), and hosting weekly Quaker meetings.
>
> *I hesitate to post her e-mail address here. If you'd like to have it
> in order to write to her, please let me know and I'll provide it
> privately.
>
> —Dodi
>

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[thejazzmonger]

I like that idea, Judy. It would give a sense of the number of people he
touched, in this little aspect of his life, and would do so in a way that
doesn't give them a mass of things to deal with.


On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Judy Madnick <jmadnick (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

> Maybe instead of individual messages, one message with all our names
> would work?
>
> Judy
>
> ------------------------------
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> From: "Hugo Kornelis" <hugo (AT) perFact (DOT) info>
> To: dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com;
> Dated: 8/3/2013 12:20:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dixonary] [OT] - Sad news
>
>
> I am very sorry to hear that, Dodi.
>
> Can you please pass my condolences to Scott's daughter?
>
> Cheers,
> Hugo
>
> Op 3-8-2013 17:21, Dodi Schultz schreef:
> >
> > I'm very sorry to report that long-time Dixonary player Scott Crom
> > died on Thursday. I received the news yesterday from his daughter,
> > Kathryn Holmes*. He was 85. Until his retirement, he was a professor
> > of philosophy at Beloit College in Wisconsin. I'm pretty sure he was a
> > member of this group long before I was, maybe even from the start of
> > the game back in '89. (Mike, do your records include such data?)
> >
> > Kathy didn't give the cause of his death. Scott and I had corresponded
> > over the years, having shared a devotion to WordPerfect, a horror of
> > certain current trends, and an addiction to a number of TV offerings,
> > mainly police procedurals. I know that he was in relatively good
> > health, except for a lifelong familial neurological problem that
> > affected balance and, recently, fading eyesight (he'd stopped
> > submitting defs a while back for fear of winning the deal, and in the
> > last couple of months had ceased voting as well). But he'd received a
> > pretty clean bill of health at a routine checkup in May and was still
> > cleaning his house, cooking for himself (his wife died about 20 years
> > ago), and hosting weekly Quaker meetings.
> >
> > *I hesitate to post her e-mail address here. If you'd like to have it
> > in order to write to her, please let me know and I'll provide it
> > privately.
> >
> > —Dodi
> >
>
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[Judy Madnick]

Who wants to volunteer? :-)

Judy



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I like that idea, Judy. It would give a sense of the number of people he touched, in this little aspect of his life, and would do so in a way that doesn't give them a mass of things to deal with.



On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Judy Madnick <jmadnick (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Maybe instead of individual messages, one message with all our names would work?

Judy

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[Dodi Schultz]

On 8/3/2013 4:40 PM, Judy Madnick wrote:
> Who wants to volunteer? :-)

Judy, I don't think that Scott's daughter Kathy is familiar with the
individual names of Dixonary players, so they'd be largely meaningless to
her. Further, Scott was a nonparticipant recently (while he was voting up
to a point, he hadn't submitted defs for at least a year, maybe two), so a
number of the players who haven't been in the game very long were actually
not acquainted with him at all.

What I will happily volunteer to do (probably Monday, to give other players
time to see and respond to this message) is send Kathy a message of
condolence from the group but specifically mentioning the names of those
who've expressed their feelings. At this point, that would be you, Mike,
Hugo, and Johnny. And I'll include any others who speak up between now and
Monday.

Dodi

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[Millie Morgan]

Dodi
I would appreciate it if you would please pass on my condolences to Scott's
daughter too.
I recall some very happy exchanges with Scott in deals gone by.

Millie



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I'm very sorry to report that long-time Dixonary player Scott Crom died on
Thursday. I received the news yesterday from his daughter, Kathryn Holmes*.
He was 85. Until his retirement, he was a professor of philosophy at Beloit
College in Wisconsin. I'm pretty sure he was a member of this group long
before I was, maybe even from the start of the game back in '89. (Mike, do
your records include such data?)

Kathy didn't give the cause of his death. Scott and I had corresponded over
the years, having shared a devotion to WordPerfect, a horror of certain
current trends, and an addiction to a number of TV offerings, mainly police
procedurals. I know that he was in relatively good health, except for a
lifelong familial neurological problem that affected balance and, recently,
fading eyesight (he'd stopped submitting defs a while back for fear of
winning the deal, and in the last couple of months had ceased voting as
well). But he'd received a pretty clean bill of health at a routine checkup
in May and was still cleaning his house, cooking for himself (his wife died
about 20 years ago), and hosting weekly Quaker meetings.

*I hesitate to post her e-mail address here. If you'd like to have it in
order to write to her, please let me know and I'll provide it privately.

—Dodi

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[thejazzmonger]

Please include me in those expressing my condolences.


On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Dodi Schultz <DodiSchultz (AT) verizon (DOT) net>wrote:

> On 8/3/2013 4:40 PM, Judy Madnick wrote:
>
>> Who wants to volunteer? :-)
>>
>
> Judy, I don't think that Scott's daughter Kathy is familiar with the
> individual names of Dixonary players, so they'd be largely meaningless to
> her. Further, Scott was a nonparticipant recently (while he was voting up
> to a point, he hadn't submitted defs for at least a year, maybe two), so a
> number of the players who haven't been in the game very long were actually
> not acquainted with him at all.
>
> What I will happily volunteer to do (probably Monday, to give other
> players time to see and respond to this message) is send Kathy a message of
> condolence from the group but specifically mentioning the names of those
> who've expressed their feelings. At this point, that would be you, Mike,
> Hugo, and Johnny. And I'll include any others who speak up between now and
> Monday.
>
> Dodi
>
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[Dodi Schultz]

On 8/3/2013 6:12 PM, Millie Morgan wrote:
>
> I would appreciate it if you would please pass on my condolences to
> Scott's daughter too.
> I recall some very happy exchanges with Scott in deals gone by.

Will do, Millie.


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[Dodi Schultz]

On 8/3/2013 6:57 PM, Steve Dixon wrote:
> Please include me in those expressing my condolences.

I'll do so, Steve.



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[Jim Hart]

I remember Scott from my earliest introduction to the game way back
whenever (ca 400?) and he's been part of the background ever since. As with
most players here, I never corresponded directly with Scott but I feel we
were acquainted so he will be missed.

Please include me in any message to his family, if only as part of the
total. I think it can be comforting to know that there were many other
people who were touched by someone's life. One particular memory I have of
my father's funeral was a man whom none of us knew but who turned up simply
because as a young engineer he'd worked with Dad many years before - it was
a reminder that our lives can interrsect with others in ways we are unaware
of.

Jim


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[Judy Madnick]

Thanks very much, Dodi. I do think that one message with a list of names will be most meaningful to Scott's daughter. She doesn't need a whole "bunch" of messages from individuals she doesn't know.

Judy



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On 8/3/2013 4:40 PM, Judy Madnick wrote:
> Who wants to volunteer? :-)

Judy, I don't think that Scott's daughter Kathy is familiar with the
individual names of Dixonary players, so they'd be largely meaningless to
her. Further, Scott was a nonparticipant recently (while he was voting up
to a point, he hadn't submitted defs for at least a year, maybe two), so a
number of the players who haven't been in the game very long were actually
not acquainted with him at all.

What I will happily volunteer to do (probably Monday, to give other players
time to see and respond to this message) is send Kathy a message of
condolence from the group but specifically mentioning the names of those
who've expressed their feelings. At this point, that would be you, Mike,
Hugo, and Johnny. And I'll include any others who speak up between now and
Monday.

Dodi

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[Chris Carson]

Dodi,

Add my condolences as well. I don't go back as far as Scot but I was one of the Tapcis crowd and Scot is an integral part if my Dixonary experience.

Chris

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On Aug 3, 2013, at 5:22 PM, Dodi Schultz <DodiSchultz (AT) verizon (DOT) net> wrote:

> On 8/3/2013 4:40 PM, Judy Madnick wrote:
>> Who wants to volunteer? :-)
>
> Judy, I don't think that Scott's daughter Kathy is familiar with the individual names of Dixonary players, so they'd be largely meaningless to her. Further, Scott was a nonparticipant recently (while he was voting up to a point, he hadn't submitted defs for at least a year, maybe two), so a number of the players who haven't been in the game very long were actually not acquainted with him at all.
>
> What I will happily volunteer to do (probably Monday, to give other players time to see and respond to this message) is send Kathy a message of condolence from the group but specifically mentioning the names of those who've expressed their feelings. At this point, that would be you, Mike, Hugo, and Johnny. And I'll include any others who speak up between now and Monday.
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[Efrem Mallach]

And mine as well, please, Dodi. As a fairly recent addition to the group I didn't know him personally and didn't interact with him nearly as much as many more senior members did, but it's always sad to see a member of any of one's communities pass on - and this is a community,

Efrem

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> On 8/3/2013 6:57 PM, Steve Dixon wrote:
>> Please include me in those expressing my condolences.
>
> I'll do so, Steve.
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[Dodi Schultz]

On 8/3/2013 8:23 PM, Jim Hart wrote:
> I remember Scott from my earliest introduction to the game way back
> whenever (ca 400?) and he's been part of the background ever since. As
> with most players here, I never corresponded directly with Scott but I
> feel we were acquainted so he will be missed.
>
> Please include me in any message to his family, if only as part of the
> total. I think it can be comforting to know that there were many other
> people who were touched by someone's life. One particular memory I have
> of my father's funeral was a man whom none of us knew but who turned up
> simply because as a young engineer he'd worked with Dad many years before
> - it was a reminder that our lives can interrsect with others in ways we
> are unaware of.

Consider it done, Jim.

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[Dodi Schultz]

On 8/3/2013 9:28 PM, Chris Carson wrote:
> Dodi,
>
> Add my condolences as well. I don't go back as far as Scott but I was one of the Tapcis crowd and Scott is an integral part if my Dixonary experience.

I will, Chris.


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[Dodi Schultz]

On 8/3/2013 9:44 PM, Efrem Mallach wrote:
> And mine as well, please, Dodi. As a fairly recent addition to the group I didn't know him personally and didn't interact with him nearly as much as many more senior members did, but it's always sad to see a member of any of one's communities pass on - and this is a community

Indeed it is. I will.

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[Daniel Widdis]

Please add me as well.

I briefly reviewed my email correspondence with Scott. While we never
really had discussions other than directly related to the game, I do note
that his definition submissions were always more than just perfunctory.
He took time to congratulate me, comment on the choice of word with humor,
and otherwise bring "the personal touch" to the game. A gentleman from
whom we all learned something.

Dan


On 8/3/13 2:22 PM, Dodi Schultz wrote:
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>What I will happily volunteer to do (probably Monday, to give other
>players
>time to see and respond to this message) is send Kathy a message of
>condolence from the group but specifically mentioning the names of those
>who've expressed their feelings.


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[Dodi Schultz]

On 8/4/2013 12:16 AM, Daniel Widdis wrote:
> Please add me as well.
>
> I briefly reviewed my email correspondence with Scott. While we never
> really had discussions other than directly related to the game, I do note
> that his definition submissions were always more than just perfunctory.
> He took time to congratulate me, comment on the choice of word with humor,
> and otherwise bring "the personal touch" to the game. A gentleman from
> whom we all learned something.

I'll definitely do so, Dan. Scott was indeed a gentleman, in every sense of
the word.



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[Tim Lodge]

Dodi

What a worthy job you've taken on - please include my name on the list.
Scott has been around ever since I started playing, and I remember some of
his interesting contributions to OT discussions.

-- Tim L


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[Guerri Stevens]

I am sorry to hear about this. Would you please add my name to the list
of condolences for Scott's daughter?

Guerri
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>
> I'm very sorry to report that long-time Dixonary player Scott Crom
> died on Thursday. I received the news yesterday from his daughter,
> Kathryn Holmes*. He was 85. Until his retirement, he was a professor
> of philosophy at Beloit College in Wisconsin. I'm pretty sure he was a
> member of this group long before I was, maybe even from the start of
> the game back in '89. (Mike, do your records include such data?)

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[EnDash@aol.com]

Dodi:

Please add me to the list for your condolence message to Scott's daughter.

-- Dick Weltz



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[—Keith Hale—]

I think we'd all like to be included. Please add me too.

On 4 August 2013 08:50, <EnDash (AT) aol (DOT) com> wrote:
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> Dodi:
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> Please add me to the list for your condolence message to Scott's daughter.
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> -- Dick Weltz
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[Nancy Shepherdson]

Very sad, indeed. He was the closest player to me, geographically, about
two hours to the west of me. I'm sorry I never got to meet him.

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[Chuck]

Dodi -

Thank you for gathering us together. Please include my condolences.
Although he was recently not as active I remember many rounds with Scott.

Thanks again,

Chuck Emery, once a frequent Tapcis user.


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> On 8/3/2013 4:40 PM, Judy Madnick wrote:

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[Chuck]

Nancy -

Many years ago there were occasional group events where some members
would congregate. It's been a long time, and I suppose such events will
become less likely as time passes, but if one were to happen I would
travel as far as I was able to attend one.

It was very interesting for me to meet Dr. Wayne Scott in person when
the occasion to visit him in San Bernardino occurred while I was
visiting my parents in the Los Angeles area.

Arley Dealey I met on many occasions, although he was no longer using
Tapcis by the time I joined. As far as I know he still has the key to
the back door of a house I no longer own - although I only live a few
blocks south of the old address.

I just missed meeting Fernando Gelbard in Moscow by one day, and am
sorry that our paths have not, as yet, crossed.

We are a community, but in some respects a strange one. One of these is
that most members have never met their peers in person. It is a
privilege to have associated with such an interesting group, and I'm
often thankful for it.

- Chuck

On 8/4/2013 2:19 PM, Nancy Shepherdson wrote:
> Very sad, indeed. He was the closest player to me, geographically,
> about two hours to the west of me. I'm sorry I never got to meet him.
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[Dodi Schultz]

On 8/4/2013 5:08 PM, Chuck Emery wrote:

>
> Thank you for gathering us together. Please include my condolences.
> Although he was recently not as active I remember many rounds with Scott.

This is rapidly approaching three-quarters of the roster—well, of those who
are current participants (there are three or four who haven't played for a
while but are still on the member list and so are still receiving all of
the Dixonary messages, but none have responded to this news). What I'll
probably do (likely Monday, as I said earlier) is express condolences on
behalf of our whole community AND list the names of those who have
particularly asked to be included.

—Dodi

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[Dodi Schultz]

On 8/4/2013 5:30 PM, Chuck Emery wrote:
>
> Many years ago there were occasional group events where some members
> would congregate. It's been a long time, and I suppose such events will
> become less likely as time passes, but if one were to happen I would
> travel as far as I was able to attend one.

Chuck, I think they were TAPCIS, rather than Dixonary, events. For those
who wonder what the heck THAT means: The acronym stood for The Access
Program for the CompuServe Information Service, and those who used the
software had a whole forum, one of dozens (maybe hundreds) at the
CompuServe site (until around '04 or '05). The game began in that forum.

> It was very interesting for me to meet Dr. Wayne Scott in person when the
> occasion to visit him in San Bernardino occurred while I was visiting my
> parents in the Los Angeles area.

I, too, met Wayne once, when he came through here to set sail aboard the
QEII a little while after his wife died.

> Arley Dealey I met on many occasions, although he was no longer using
> Tapcis by the time I joined. As far as I know he still has the key to
> the back door of a house I no longer own - although I only live a few
> blocks south of the old address.
>
> I just missed meeting Fernando Gelbard in Moscow by one day, and am sorry
> that our paths have not, as yet, crossed.

The is the first I've heard of Dealey. He must have dropped out during
Dixonary's very early years. Of course all of us who were around in the
'90s remember Fernando and his X- (or at least G-) rated defs. Whatever
happened to him? I know he was a friend of Wayne's.

> We are a community, but in some respects a strange one. One of these is
> that most members have never met their peers in person. It is a privilege
> to have associated with such an interesting group, and I'm often thankful
> for it.

Amen.

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[Judy Madnick]

That sounds perfect. Thanks again, Dodi!

Judy



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Dated: 8/4/2013 6:04:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Dixonary] [OT] - Sad news

On 8/4/2013 5:08 PM, Chuck Emery wrote:

>
> Thank you for gathering us together. Please include my condolences.
> Although he was recently not as active I remember many rounds with Scott.

This is rapidly approaching three-quarters of the roster—well, of those who
are current participants (there are three or four who haven't played for a
while but are still on the member list and so are still receiving all of
the Dixonary messages, but none have responded to this news). What I'll
probably do (likely Monday, as I said earlier) is express condolences on
behalf of our whole community AND list the names of those who have
particularly asked to be included.

—Dodi

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[Judy Madnick]

Chuck (and all),

Although I haven't met any of you in person, I *have* met a number of CompuServe members from the Word Processing Forum, Court Reporters Forum, and RV Forum. We spent a weekend in Maine with many members of the RV Forum, and I met one of my now-very-close friends on that forum. What's especially nice is that even though we moved from Albany, NY, to Jacksonville, FL, six years ago...and recently moved back to Albany, no one in the Internet world cares where we live -- life goes on!

Judy Madnick
Albany, NY

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[Chris Carson]

They were the legendary Tapfests. I was fortunate enough to attend two. One on Long Island - Rosedale? Rosemint? I remember the little lake and the ducks behind the restaurant. And the other at the Cajun in west Chelsea or thereabouts. It was gear fun with Toni Savage, Stu Lieber, Theresa Carey, and the Lonely Planet from Oz, among others. It was great fun.

Chris


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On Aug 4, 2013, at 6:24 PM, Dodi Schultz <DodiSchultz (AT) verizon (DOT) net> wrote:

> On 8/4/2013 5:30 PM, Chuck Emery wrote:
>>
>> Many years ago there were occasional group events where some members would congregate. It's been a long time, and I suppose such events will become less likely as time passes, but if one were to happen I would travel as far as I was able to attend one.
>
> Chuck, I think they were TAPCIS, rather than Dixonary, events. For those who wonder what the heck THAT means: The acronym stood for The Access Program for the CompuServe Information Service, and those who used the software had a whole forum, one of dozens (maybe hundreds) at the CompuServe site (until around '04 or '05). The game began in that forum.
>
>> It was very interesting for me to meet Dr. Wayne Scott in person when the occasion to visit him in San Bernardino occurred while I was visiting my parents in the Los Angeles area.
>
> I, too, met Wayne once, when he came through here to set sail aboard the QEII a little while after his wife died.
>
>> Arley Dealey I met on many occasions, although he was no longer using Tapcis by the time I joined. As far as I know he still has the key to the back door of a house I no longer own - although I only live a few blocks south of the old address.
>>
>> I just missed meeting Fernando Gelbard in Moscow by one day, and am sorry that our paths have not, as yet, crossed.
>
> The is the first I've heard of Dealey. He must have dropped out during Dixonary's very early years. Of course all of us who were around in the '90s remember Fernando and his X- (or at least G-) rated defs. Whatever happened to him? I know he was a friend of Wayne's.
>
>> We are a community, but in some respects a strange one. One of these is that most members have never met their peers in person. It is a privilege to have associated with such an interesting group, and I'm often thankful for it.
>
> Amen.
>
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[mvgrieco]

Please include me.
-Matthew

Sent from my MetroPCS 4G Wireless PhoneDodi Schultz <DodiSchultz (AT) verizon (DOT) net> wrote:On 8/4/2013 5:08 PM, Chuck Emery wrote:

>
> Thank you for gathering us together. Please include my condolences.
> Although he was recently not as active I remember many rounds with Scott.

This is rapidly approaching three-quarters of the roster—well, of those who
are current participants (there are three or four who haven't played for a
while but are still on the member list and so are still receiving all of
the Dixonary messages, but none have responded to this news). What I'll
probably do (likely Monday, as I said earlier) is express condolences on
behalf of our whole community AND list the names of those who have
particularly asked to be included.

—Dodi

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[Tony Abell]

This is very sad news. I'm afraid I didn't know Scott very well in a literal
sense, but this game's temporally indefinite nature and the kind of
participant it attracts makes the occurrence of deaths seem more personal and
affecting than one might expect. Please also relay my condolences to the
family.


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On 2013-08-04 at 18:04 Dodi Schultz wrote:

> On 8/4/2013 5:08 PM, Chuck Emery wrote:

>>
>> Thank you for gathering us together. Please include my condolences.
>> Although he was recently not as active I remember many rounds with Scott.

> This is rapidly approaching three-quarters of the roster—well, of those who
> are current participants (there are three or four who haven't played for a
> while but are still on the member list and so are still receiving all of
> the Dixonary messages, but none have responded to this news). What I'll
> probably do (likely Monday, as I said earlier) is express condolences on
> behalf of our whole community AND list the names of those who have
> particularly asked to be included.

> —Dodi

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[Dave Cunningham]

Please add me to the list as well.

Dave

On Saturday, August 3, 2013 1:34:28 PM UTC-4, Judy Madnick wrote:

> Maybe instead of individual messages, one message with all our names
> would work?
>
> Judy
>
> ------------------------------
> Original message
>
> To: dixo... (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com <javascript:>;
> Dated: 8/3/2013 12:20:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dixonary] [OT] - Sad news
>
> I am very sorry to hear that, Dodi.
>
> Can you please pass my condolences to Scott's daughter?
>
> Cheers,
> Hugo
>
> Op 3-8-2013 17:21, Dodi Schultz schreef:
> >
> > I'm very sorry to report that long-time Dixonary player Scott Crom
> > died on Thursday. I received the news yesterday from his daughter,
> > Kathryn Holmes*. He was 85. Until his retirement, he was a professor
> > of philosophy at Beloit College in Wisconsin. I'm pretty sure he was a
> > member of this group long before I was, maybe even from the start of
> > the game back in '89. (Mike, do your records include such data?)
> >
> > Kathy didn't give the cause of his death. Scott and I had corresponded
> > over the years, having shared a devotion to WordPerfect, a horror of
> > certain current trends, and an addiction to a number of TV offerings,
> > mainly police procedurals. I know that he was in relatively good
> > health, except for a lifelong familial neurological problem that
> > affected balance and, recently, fading eyesight (he'd stopped
> > submitting defs a while back for fear of winning the deal, and in the
> > last couple of months had ceased voting as well). But he'd received a
> > pretty clean bill of health at a routine checkup in May and was still
> > cleaning his house, cooking for himself (his wife died about 20 years
> > ago), and hosting weekly Quaker meetings.
> >
> > *I hesitate to post her e-mail address here. If you'd like to have it
> > in order to write to her, please let me know and I'll provide it
> > privately.
> >
> > —Dodi
> >
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[Dave Cunningham]

Um -- the acronym postdated the original name "ZAPCIS" which was named as
it really cut down connect charges.

Dave

On Sunday, August 4, 2013 6:24:58 PM UTC-4, Dodi Schultz wrote:

> On 8/4/2013 5:30 PM, Chuck Emery wrote:
> >
> > Many years ago there were occasional group events where some members
> > would congregate. It's been a long time, and I suppose such events will
> > become less likely as time passes, but if one were to happen I would
> > travel as far as I was able to attend one.
>
> Chuck, I think they were TAPCIS, rather than Dixonary, events. For those
> who wonder what the heck THAT means: The acronym stood for The Access
> Program for the CompuServe Information Service, and those who used the
> software had a whole forum, one of dozens (maybe hundreds) at the
> CompuServe site (until around '04 or '05). The game began in that forum.
>
> > It was very interesting for me to meet Dr. Wayne Scott in person when
> the
> > occasion to visit him in San Bernardino occurred while I was visiting my
> > parents in the Los Angeles area.
>
> I, too, met Wayne once, when he came through here to set sail aboard the
> QEII a little while after his wife died.
>
> > Arley Dealey I met on many occasions, although he was no longer using
> > Tapcis by the time I joined. As far as I know he still has the key to
> > the back door of a house I no longer own - although I only live a few
> > blocks south of the old address.
> >
> > I just missed meeting Fernando Gelbard in Moscow by one day, and am
> sorry
> > that our paths have not, as yet, crossed.
>
> The is the first I've heard of Dealey. He must have dropped out during
> Dixonary's very early years. Of course all of us who were around in the
> '90s remember Fernando and his X- (or at least G-) rated defs. Whatever
> happened to him? I know he was a friend of Wayne's.
>
> > We are a community, but in some respects a strange one. One of these is
> > that most members have never met their peers in person. It is a
> privilege
> > to have associated with such an interesting group, and I'm often
> thankful
> > for it.
>
> Amen.
>
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[John Barrs]

Dodi

Although I did express my condolences earlier please do ensure that you
include me.

I, of course, am a latecomer, never having belonged to Tapcis for I was an
Ozwin fan but I followed Sidney Markowitz over to Tapcis when compuserve
finally pulled the plug on DOS based - and found the game.
Over the years I had many a 'conversation' with Scott ranging from
biological esoterica to the Waverley novels of Sir Walter Scott.
Always a gentle and erudite man I learned a lot

JohnnyB


On 3 August 2013 16:21, Dodi Schultz <DodiSchultz (AT) verizon (DOT) net> wrote:

>
> I'm very sorry to report that long-time Dixonary player Scott Crom died on
> Thursday. I received the news yesterday from his daughter, Kathryn Holmes*.
> He was 85. Until his retirement, he was a professor of philosophy at Beloit
> College in Wisconsin. I'm pretty sure he was a member of this group long
> before I was, maybe even from the start of the game back in '89. (Mike, do
> your records include such data?)
>
> Kathy didn't give the cause of his death. Scott and I had corresponded
> over the years, having shared a devotion to WordPerfect, a horror of
> certain current trends, and an addiction to a number of TV offerings,
> mainly police procedurals. I know that he was in relatively good health,
> except for a lifelong familial neurological problem that affected balance
> and, recently, fading eyesight (he'd stopped submitting defs a while back
> for fear of winning the deal, and in the last couple of months had ceased
> voting as well). But he'd received a pretty clean bill of health at a
> routine checkup in May and was still cleaning his house, cooking for
> himself (his wife died about 20 years ago), and hosting weekly Quaker
> meetings.
>
> *I hesitate to post her e-mail address here. If you'd like to have it in
> order to write to her, please let me know and I'll provide it privately.
>
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[Chuck]

Tapfests. I'd forgotten the name but recall it now. With the passing
of Tapcis I now understand why there have been no recent ones.

Fernando has a website at gelbard.net, and posted on UTube as LiquidJazz
ten months ago. I'm considering getting in touch.

Chuck

On 8/4/2013 8:00 PM, Chris Carson wrote:
> They were the legendary Tapfests. I was fortunate enough to attend two. One on Long Island - Rosedale? Rosemint? I remember the little lake and the ducks behind the restaurant. And the other at the Cajun in west Chelsea or thereabouts. It was gear fun with Toni Savage, Stu Lieber, Theresa Carey, and the Lonely Planet from Oz, among others. It was great fun.
>
> Chris
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 4, 2013, at 6:24 PM, Dodi Schultz<DodiSchultz (AT) verizon (DOT) net> wrote:
>
>> On 8/4/2013 5:30 PM, Chuck Emery wrote:
>>> Many years ago there were occasional group events where some members would congregate. It's been a long time, and I suppose such events will become less likely as time passes, but if one were to happen I would travel as far as I was able to attend one.
>> Chuck, I think they were TAPCIS, rather than Dixonary, events. For those who wonder what the heck THAT means: The acronym stood for The Access Program for the CompuServe Information Service, and those who used the software had a whole forum, one of dozens (maybe hundreds) at the CompuServe site (until around '04 or '05). The game began in that forum.
>>
>>> It was very interesting for me to meet Dr. Wayne Scott in person when the occasion to visit him in San Bernardino occurred while I was visiting my parents in the Los Angeles area.
>> I, too, met Wayne once, when he came through here to set sail aboard the QEII a little while after his wife died.
>>
>>> Arley Dealey I met on many occasions, although he was no longer using Tapcis by the time I joined. As far as I know he still has the key to the back door of a house I no longer own - although I only live a few blocks south of the old address.
>>>
>>> I just missed meeting Fernando Gelbard in Moscow by one day, and am sorry that our paths have not, as yet, crossed.
>> The is the first I've heard of Dealey. He must have dropped out during Dixonary's very early years. Of course all of us who were around in the '90s remember Fernando and his X- (or at least G-) rated defs. Whatever happened to him? I know he was a friend of Wayne's.
>>
>>> We are a community, but in some respects a strange one. One of these is that most members have never met their peers in person. It is a privilege to have associated with such an interesting group, and I'm often thankful for it.
>> Amen.
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[thejazzmonger]

Fernando was one of the great wits of the Tapcis Forum and a *very* creative
Dixonary player.


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Chuck <chuck (AT) tdi (DOT) ca> wrote:

> Tapfests. I'd forgotten the name but recall it now. With the passing of
> Tapcis I now understand why there have been no recent ones.
>
> Fernando has a website at gelbard.net, and posted on UTube as LiquidJazz
> ten months ago. I'm considering getting in touch.
>
> Chuck
>
>
> On 8/4/2013 8:00 PM, Chris Carson wrote:
>
>> They were the legendary Tapfests. I was fortunate enough to attend two.
>> One on Long Island - Rosedale? Rosemint? I remember the little lake and the
>> ducks behind the restaurant. And the other at the Cajun in west Chelsea or
>> thereabouts. It was gear fun with Toni Savage, Stu Lieber, Theresa Carey,
>> and the Lonely Planet from Oz, among others. It was great fun.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Aug 4, 2013, at 6:24 PM, Dodi Schultz<DodiSchultz (AT) verizon (DOT) **net<DodiSchultz (AT) verizon (DOT) net>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On 8/4/2013 5:30 PM, Chuck Emery wrote:
>>>
>>>> Many years ago there were occasional group events where some members
>>>> would congregate. It's been a long time, and I suppose such events will
>>>> become less likely as time passes, but if one were to happen I would travel
>>>> as far as I was able to attend one.
>>>>
>>> Chuck, I think they were TAPCIS, rather than Dixonary, events. For those
>>> who wonder what the heck THAT means: The acronym stood for The Access
>>> Program for the CompuServe Information Service, and those who used the
>>> software had a whole forum, one of dozens (maybe hundreds) at the
>>> CompuServe site (until around '04 or '05). The game began in that forum.
>>>
>>> It was very interesting for me to meet Dr. Wayne Scott in person when
>>>> the occasion to visit him in San Bernardino occurred while I was visiting
>>>> my parents in the Los Angeles area.
>>>>
>>> I, too, met Wayne once, when he came through here to set sail aboard the
>>> QEII a little while after his wife died.
>>>
>>> Arley Dealey I met on many occasions, although he was no longer using
>>>> Tapcis by the time I joined. As far as I know he still has the key to the
>>>> back door of a house I no longer own - although I only live a few blocks
>>>> south of the old address.
>>>>
>>>> I just missed meeting Fernando Gelbard in Moscow by one day, and am
>>>> sorry that our paths have not, as yet, crossed.
>>>>
>>> The is the first I've heard of Dealey. He must have dropped out during
>>> Dixonary's very early years. Of course all of us who were around in the
>>> '90s remember Fernando and his X- (or at least G-) rated defs. Whatever
>>> happened to him? I know he was a friend of Wayne's.
>>>
>>> We are a community, but in some respects a strange one. One of these
>>>> is that most members have never met their peers in person. It is a
>>>> privilege to have associated with such an interesting group, and I'm often
>>>> thankful for it.
>>>>
>>> Amen.
>>>
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[Chris Carson]

I'm glad to hear he's still around. Someone should compile a digest of Fernando's definitions and comments. The man had a unique sense of humor and his offerings are the stuff of legend. I never had the pleasure of meeting him. I came close a couple of times in my travels but that was it.

Chris

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On Aug 5, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Chuck <chuck (AT) tdi (DOT) ca> wrote:

> Tapfests. I'd forgotten the name but recall it now. With the passing of Tapcis I now understand why there have been no recent ones.
>
> Fernando has a website at gelbard.net, and posted on UTube as LiquidJazz ten months ago. I'm considering getting in touch.
>
> Chuck
>
> On 8/4/2013 8:00 PM, Chris Carson wrote:
>> They were the legendary Tapfests. I was fortunate enough to attend two. One on Long Island - Rosedale? Rosemint? I remember the little lake and the ducks behind the restaurant. And the other at the Cajun in west Chelsea or thereabouts. It was gear fun with Toni Savage, Stu Lieber, Theresa Carey, and the Lonely Planet from Oz, among others. It was great fun.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Aug 4, 2013, at 6:24 PM, Dodi Schultz<DodiSchultz (AT) verizon (DOT) net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/4/2013 5:30 PM, Chuck Emery wrote:
>>>> Many years ago there were occasional group events where some members would congregate. It's been a long time, and I suppose such events will become less likely as time passes, but if one were to happen I would travel as far as I was able to attend one.
>>> Chuck, I think they were TAPCIS, rather than Dixonary, events. For those who wonder what the heck THAT means: The acronym stood for The Access Program for the CompuServe Information Service, and those who used the software had a whole forum, one of dozens (maybe hundreds) at the CompuServe site (until around '04 or '05). The game began in that forum.
>>>
>>>> It was very interesting for me to meet Dr. Wayne Scott in person when the occasion to visit him in San Bernardino occurred while I was visiting my parents in the Los Angeles area.
>>> I, too, met Wayne once, when he came through here to set sail aboard the QEII a little while after his wife died.
>>>
>>>> Arley Dealey I met on many occasions, although he was no longer using Tapcis by the time I joined. As far as I know he still has the key to the back door of a house I no longer own - although I only live a few blocks south of the old address.
>>>>
>>>> I just missed meeting Fernando Gelbard in Moscow by one day, and am sorry that our paths have not, as yet, crossed.
>>> The is the first I've heard of Dealey. He must have dropped out during Dixonary's very early years. Of course all of us who were around in the '90s remember Fernando and his X- (or at least G-) rated defs. Whatever happened to him? I know he was a friend of Wayne's.
>>>
>>>> We are a community, but in some respects a strange one. One of these is that most members have never met their peers in person. It is a privilege to have associated with such an interesting group, and I'm often thankful for it.
>>> Amen.
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[Nancy Shepherdson]

I met Toni Savage in New York for dinner once and knew Dodi from our
writers' group, ASJA. Although I haven't seen her *there* in many years.
She's the one who persuaded me to join this fine group. And I interviewed
Judy once for an article, years before she joined this group.

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[Jim Hart]

Chris, do you remember when that Tapfest in west Chelsea occurred? Early
90s? I visited New York periodically in my Lonely Planet days but that was
the only time I coincided with a Tapfest. I confess I could not have named
who was present, so congratulations on your memory.

I discovered online communication in the 80s as a backdoor way of sending
and receiving telexes which was the technology du jour for business
communication until we all discovered faxes. I personally found Compuserve
interesting as a concept but gave up trying to develop it as a business
tool and in the end really only kept it on because of Tapcis. I can't
remember when I discovered Dixonary but perhaps the archivist knows.

I went to Tapcis initially for technical advice and stayed for the
entertainment. My recollection of the long-term Tapcis users was that they
were intelligent, witty and technologically curious without necessarily
being geeks. It was a curious byproduct of a brief moment in online
history.

Jim

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[Guerri Stevens]

I met some of the TAPCIS people when Joan Friedman celebrated her 40th
birthday. At the time, she lived in New Haven and I lived near Hartford.
Howard Benner was there as was Marilyn (I forget her last name), a
couple of WPUSERS members, and one of the brothers: there were two and
one was Crane, but it was the other brother and I cannot for the life of
me remember his name nor can I find it anywhere. Nor can I find my old
TAPCIS files, possibly having decided I no longer need them.

Guerri

On 8/5/2013 5:13 PM, Nancy Shepherdson wrote:
> I met Toni Savage in New York for dinner once and knew Dodi from our
> writers' group, ASJA. Although I haven't seen her *there* in many
> years. She's the one who persuaded me to join this fine group. And I
> interviewed Judy once for an article, years before she joined this group.
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[Guerri Stevens]

It was Monte Davis. I thought it was he who had posted the password
rules message, but that turned out to be Dick Kahane. Nevertheless,
Monte's name finally popped into my mind.

I can post the password rules if you want to see them.

Guerri

On 8/6/2013 4:47 AM, Guerri Stevens wrote:
> I met some of the TAPCIS people when Joan Friedman celebrated her 40th
> birthday. At the time, she lived in New Haven and I lived near
> Hartford. Howard Benner was there as was Marilyn (I forget her last
> name), a couple of WPUSERS members, and one of the brothers: there
> were two and one was Crane, but it was the other brother and I cannot
> for the life of me remember his name nor can I find it anywhere. Nor
> can I find my old TAPCIS files, possibly having decided I no longer
> need them.
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[Chris Carson]

Jim,

It would have been the summer of '96. You were indeed at one of the Tapfests at the Cajun. I recall being impressed that you were not only with a famous publisher but had come what must have been a record distance. Tapcis and the forum were indeed a unique phenomenon of the time.

I looked up the Cajun the other day and learned that it closed in 2006, a victim of an expired lease and a high-rise development. Its a shame since they were one if the more interesting jazz venues. If I recall correctly, the original choice of the Cajun for a Tapfest was because a friend of Theresa Carey's was appearing.

Ah, good times.

Chris
Nostalgic in New Amsterdam


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On Aug 6, 2013, at 12:55 AM, Jim Hart <jfshart (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

> Chris, do you remember when that Tapfest in west Chelsea occurred? Early 90s? I visited New York periodically in my Lonely Planet days but that was the only time I coincided with a Tapfest. I confess I could not have named who was present, so congratulations on your memory.
>
> I discovered online communication in the 80s as a backdoor way of sending and receiving telexes which was the technology du jour for business communication until we all discovered faxes. I personally found Compuserve interesting as a concept but gave up trying to develop it as a business tool and in the end really only kept it on because of Tapcis. I can't remember when I discovered Dixonary but perhaps the archivist knows.
>
> I went to Tapcis initially for technical advice and stayed for the entertainment. My recollection of the long-term Tapcis users was that they were intelligent, witty and technologically curious without necessarily being geeks. It was a curious byproduct of a brief moment in online history.
>
> Jim
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[Dodi Schultz]

On 8/6/2013 7:59 AM, Chris Carson wrote:
> Nostalgic in New Amsterdam

Ah! A Wayne Scottish sign-off!

(The players who arrived within the past few years must find all of this
really fascinating. Bored to tears is probably more like it.)

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[France International/Mike Shefler]

You started in round 336. Unfortunately I do not have a date associated
with rounds before I was scorekeeper.

Mike

On 8/6/2013 12:55 AM, Jim Hart wrote:
> I can't remember when I discovered Dixonary but perhaps the archivist
> knows.

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[Tim B]

,
> Scott has been around ever since I started playing, and I remember some of
> his interesting contributions to OT discussions.

Me too, though sadly I've been without internet access since Friday, so I assume I'm too late to be
included.

The wifi here in Cumbria does seem to be more intermittent than usual, so please don't be surprised
if I disappear for the odd day or two.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

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[Jim Hart]

Thanks Mike - that's enough of a general guide


On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 11:31:18 PM UTC+10, Mike Shefler wrote:
>
> You started in round 336. Unfortunately I do not have a date associated
> with rounds before I was scorekeeper.
>
> Mike
>
> On 8/6/2013 12:55 AM, Jim Hart wrote:
> > I can't remember when I discovered Dixonary but perhaps the archivist
> > knows.
>
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[Jim Hart]

Ah yes the Crane brothers - twins perhaps? One or both were responsible for
some entertaining and off-the-wall posts.

Jim

On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 7:34:58 PM UTC+10, Guerri wrote:
>
> It was Monte Davis. I thought it was he who had posted the password
> rules message, but that turned out to be Dick Kahane. Nevertheless,
> Monte's name finally popped into my mind.
>
> I can post the password rules if you want to see them.
>
> Guerri
>
> On 8/6/2013 4:47 AM, Guerri Stevens wrote:
> > I met some of the TAPCIS people when Joan Friedman celebrated her 40th
> > birthday. At the time, she lived in New Haven and I lived near
> > Hartford. Howard Benner was there as was Marilyn (I forget her last
> > name), a couple of WPUSERS members, and one of the brothers: there
> > were two and one was Crane, but it was the other brother and I cannot
> > for the life of me remember his name nor can I find it anywhere. Nor
> > can I find my old TAPCIS files, possibly having decided I no longer
> > need them.
> >
>
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[heinz57g]

WOW!

never played Dixonary, too little time, too stupid. but all those names in this post, so many familiar, many so close, still. tears in my eyes.

>> TAPCIS ... For those who wonder what the heck THAT means: The
>> acronym stood for The Access Program for the CompuServe Information
>> Service, and those who used the software had a whole forum, one of
>> dozens (maybe hundreds) at the CompuServe site'05).

dodi, you didnt really write this? who in the world does not know what TAPCIS stands for?

greetings to all of you - heinz -

[Chris Carson]

Hi Heinz,

TAPCIS stood for "The Access Program for Compuserve Information Services". It was a program designed to minimize the amount of time that a user actually spent connected to the service since way back then the online services like Compuserve or AOL charged per minute of connect time. TAPCIS was designed to dial up and connect to the service and grab the messages in a forum and the log off and disconnect. The user could then peruse the messages at his leisure, compose replies and new messages and then dial back in and upload the replies and new posts.

We didn't do a lot of large file downloads back then.

Chris

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On Aug 11, 2013, at 6:39 PM, heinz57g <100022.102 (AT) compuserve (DOT) com> wrote:

>
> WOW!
>
> never played Dixonary, too little time, too stupid. but all those names
> in this post, so many familiar, many so close, still. tears in my eyes.
>
> ->> TAPCIS ... *For those who wonder what the heck THAT means:* The
>>> acronym stood for The Access Program for the CompuServe Information
>>> Service, and those who used the software had a whole forum, one of
>>> dozens (maybe hundreds) at the CompuServe site'05).-
>
> dodi, you didnt really write this? who in the world does not know what
> TAPCIS stands for?
>
> greetings to all of you - heinz -
>
>
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