Back in the dim distantness of 'back then'....
....I was a regular on a number of news groups (Usenet) - At the time there were a number of allied news groups with a core group of users who posted in all of the groups, and they had had a number of 'meets' over the years. Myself, being one of the few regulars based in the UK, found it a bit tricky to make these 'meets' but after a while I became quite pally with one of the girls in the group and arranged a trip over to Washington State (where she lived). There were no axe murders, no weirdness, just a jolly fine visit for a couple of weeks to wonderful part of the world (Whidbey Island) While I was there, we met another regular who drove down from BC to meet up for an afternoon.

A couple of years later I became pally with another girl in the group, and the two of us have met up a number of times in SC - one time another couple of the groups members drive out from Arkansas to meet up for a day or two - and now myself and this girl are engaged and hoping to get together permanently before too long.

This has not been an exciting post. Sorry about that. The Washington trip was over 10 years ago, though, so that certainly fell into the time period of the 'internet axe murderer'

Massive drugs/length.
(TC, Fri 21 Oct 2011, 11:34, 2 replies)

Ha! I went to Washington Statefor a Usenet meetup
BAST.BOB for talk.bizarre - then down to Vegas for a rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan social. Now facebook friends with most of them.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 21 Oct 2011, 17:16, closed)

We were all in allied groups...
that sprang from Alt.Books.Stephen-King. Alt.Underground being my main hang out.

Since the death of Usenet we've kinda held together a bit through emails, and then just recently opened up a facebook group. Good people, you know?
(TC, Wed 26 Oct 2011, 12:52, closed)