Re: Not seeing emails today - low activity or errors?

I was at Common in Nashville when he passed. I finally got to see him
standing first in linefor the "ask IBM" or whatever that session was called
where he was a thorn in IBM's paw. He was hilarious, and smart.

Art

On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Agreed about Al. Wonderful guy.

Someone actually used his name on Amazon to review my 1st eRPG book in a
very negative light. I contacted him and he replied right away (called me)
and said "I promise you that isn't me! It was just someone using my name
obviously. I am so sorry! " He even contacted Amazon with me and we had
it removed.


On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM Jason Olson <josys36@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I never had the pleasure of meeting Al. It's a shame too because I've
only heard good stories about him.

In the last 20 years I don't get to conferences much, so I've only met 2
IBMi "celebrities". One I've met a few times and he's a great guy, but
the other was a rude jerk. NEVER want to see him again. Ugh.


On 8/15/25 13:15, Dan Bale wrote:

That definitely sounds like Al.

- Dan Bale

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On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 11:01 AM Rob Berendt <

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Heh, this reminds me of an incident many years ago.

Traffic on the lists was slow for a day and Al Barsa called me directly

and asked if anything was wrong.

I told him that nothing was wrong, it was just a slow day. I then said

he was addicted to the mailing lists and was going through withdrawal.

He laughed at that and said that was a possibility.

david

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