JoeP wrote: ↑08 Feb 2021, 20:00
.. Hans had over 90K posts in the various incarnations of Woody's/Windows Secrets Lounge. Very prolific and extremely helpful.
Rudi wrote: ↑09 Feb 2021, 05:24
.. are MANY persons out there who rely on your insightful answers and who have a measure of reassurance with your online presence.
Wow, a vast quantity of knowledge Hans must have shared around the place. It’s hard to imagine such a high amount of help giving. The time it takes me to answer some Threads it would take me a few life times to get that far.
I thought I once got some useful info from a post after a search that landed at a site with a name along the lines of “windows.secrets” or whatever. ( It was a post that had both Hans and Stuart in it, as I recall. (
https://eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php ... 95#p202395 ) ). I think that forum seems to have vanished??… , some links I had just go to
https://www.askwoody.com/ instead ?!?? I am not quite sure what’s going on there, - I have not found much info about all that.
It’s unfortunate when a forum just vanishes. It seems a bit mean on people that may have contributed a lot: I had some contact a while back to an owner of a major forum who hinted that the place might just “vanish without trace” in a year or so. – it was nothing but trouble to him and selling the place legally was awkward, apparently. He thought of making it “read only” and/if me and a few others helped him trim 99% of the crap out of it. I didn’t feel like helping him do that at the time, some people I knew were/ are very involved with the forum, and it seemed a bit mean to effectively kill them off without warning,… although it was very tempting to help effectively ban the entire Moderator team with one swipe!
I have found web.archive.org very good for blog sites that vanish – usually you can get perfect copies of most stuff there.
But it’s less effective for posts in a main forum unless your are lucky.
The digital world, or internet world, is perhaps not such a reliable long term source as it should be.. Or it is getting so full that google is becoming less of your friend, - the search engines less able to apply the sensible human understanding to filter out the 1% of useful info amongst the 99% of crap in the internet
In any case, I am old fashioned, I think the person behind the answers is the most important resource , IMO, especially if they are nice people, which can happen sometimes as well, they’re not all unpleasant anti social people hiding from the real world!
I truly wish people like Hans the health and longevity that both: they deserves ; and which would be a great benefit for everyone else. ( although the world can probably do without a lot of the main forum Moderators, IMO …. )
Alan
I am having difficulty logging in with this account just now.
You can find me at DocAElstein also
Congratulations to the 70th Hans 
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