(November 14, 2022 at 7:09 am)arewethereyet Wrote:(November 14, 2022 at 6:18 am)Jehanne Wrote: On a side note, did you ever know "The Everlasting God Stopper"? She was very active on a forum that was related to infidels.org and she knew David Mills, the author of The Atheist Universe which Dawkins mentions in his book. A coup occurred on that board 15 years ago and she got banned, as did several reincarnated socks.
I am not familiar with that user name. I was on TTA for several years and quite active there. I have checked out a few other forums but preferred TTA, and now prefer here. When we had crazies trolling TTA, they often came here also. There tended to be a working relationship between TTA and AF to stop some of the worst. There was also overlap with some members posting on both. AD was set up as a place for TTA members to go and stay together. There is still overlap between that group and this.
I first started on Usenet 30 years ago, alt.atheism; I was a YEC Christian fundamentalist back in those days and was posting crap along the lines of the Omphalos hypothesis. Almost immediately I got the Last Thursdayism responses, which really caused me to think about things. I ended-up getting a private email from a U of Chicago faculty member (Jerry Coyne?) who basically told me to get lost, saying that he could not, per U Chicago policy, post publicly to Usenet. After that I ended-up at infidels.org before, eventually, finding my way here.