military-request@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (01/28/91)
From: military-request@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Columbus, Ohio (AP) -- At a press conference today, Bill Thacker, moderator of sci.military, announced the completion of his 10,000th sortie into Internet bitspace. Thacker claimed a success rate of nearly 80%, but added that a few articles had been flamed or even shot down by various Internet sites. He released no casualty estimates. Reading from a prepared statement, Thacker announced that he had been called out of town on business from 28 January to 1 February, 1990. As a result, he stated, there would be a 4-5 day cessation of postings to sci.military. He suggested that readers should avoid, as much as possible, submitting articles until the last day of January, claiming that the odds were that whatever question they had in mind would be answered by the news media during the interim. Thacker expressed his hope that this downtime would result in a purge of tired, old topics and a refreshing re-evaluation of items of current interest. "But I don't really care if it doesn't. Anything is fine, so long as I can stop staring at this blasted screen every night." When asked for a reaction to the possibility that the gulf war might continue for a period of several months or more, he broke into tears and fled, sobbing, from the room. Several reporters later expressed their admiration for his deep concern for American soldiers overseas. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker Moderator, sci.military military-request@att.att.com (614) 860-5294 Send submissions to military@att.att.com