Andy Hall - tribute comments

[Samantha Booth]

Andrew

I very much appreciate you taking time to do this for Andy and his family. I am sure they will appreciate, and see, just what an asset he was to this group and how much he will be missed, and indeed will continue to be an asset as we have all taken something from him in the past that we will be richer from in the future. You're a Gentleman Andrew and I am sure everyone here thanks you for doing such a touching, poinient and heart warming memorial from all of his friends here at uk.d-i-y.

God bless Sam

[Samantha Booth]

What a lovely idea Dave.

[The Medway Handyman]

My sentiments exactly Sam, thank you for expressing so much better than I ever could. Thanks Andrew.

[S Viemeister]

And mine. sheila at viemeister dot co dot uk

[Steve Firth]

"Most blinkered support for an Aga"?

"Recommendation for a really expensive tool"?

"Frequent Flyer Trophy Cup"?

[John Rumm]

If its in a PDF then its probably not a problem using it straight...

If its going in HTML then a bit of numeric character encoding will throw the vast majority of havesters.

[Owain]

I now double-bag [ahem] on usenet and mung an address which doesn't work even if demunged.

Does anyone with a reliable news server know what Andy's last few posts were?

Owain

[Andy Burns]

The last of his posts I saw via Giganews on 7th August were

"Wooden bosses for handrails - who sells 'em ?" msgid:

"Biscuit Jointing" msgid: finally

"Domestic windmills put to bed." msgid:

[Andy Cap]

Thirded. Thanks for taking the time and trouble.

Andy C

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Best power tool released over a year might be an idea. Although getting a consensus would be the problem.

[Rod]

"Poster of the Year" - biggest and best contribution to uk.d-i-y in the year?

Combine number *and* quality of posts (-100 for every 'Please eff off as you are a total plantpot.' :-) ). Maybe extras to be gained from other activities (e.g. doing wiki articles, arranging meets)?

[stuart noble]

If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower Nor inscribe a stone Nor when I am gone Speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves That I have known

Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So .... sing as well

Joyce Grenfell

1910-1979

[John Rumm]

They have scrolled off my system, but google seems to identify a few on the 7th.

I was wondering if it was worth doing an announcement on some of the other groups he frequented. None had the sort of posting history as here, but a couple had a reasonable amount of posts?

[Dave Liquorice]

Hear Hear.

[AJH]

I signed mine AJH, because that's how I sign notes, but later wished I had used my name, Andrew Heggie.

[Steve Firth]

Aldi Wall Chaser

Hmm, I can see the problem. OTOH if the criteria becomes "What would Andy have done?" it becomes a bit easier, doesn't it?

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember [e-mail] (Andrew Gabriel) saying something like:

few contributors drop off the perch, but I've never seen such a collection of genuinely sad comments at the passing of a group member. It's a measure of how he affected us all, some of us without realising it.

[Rod]

In alt.support.thyroid one person was the most prolific and helpful poster of the lot. He died some time ago - and it took a while for the story to become apparent. Clearly he was very much missed - certainly by us.

And he only manged 753 posts! Andy Hall's total is nothing short of astonishing.

[TheOldFellow]

Well done. And thank you.

[jal]

It's extremely good of you to do this Andrew: it's very much appreciated.

Thanks John Law