[sumo] [Off-topic] Great posters of the past (was Number of posts)

[Judith Douglas]

I think he also had a web site which sold Sumo memorabilia, but very 
briefly.

Jude

On Aug 15, 2007, at 12:30 AM, Earle Jones wrote:

>
> On Aug 14, 2007, at 7:10 PM, John Racine wrote:
>
>>> This points out what the list has lost with the
>> departure of some of our most prolific and informative
>> posters: Kobayashi Toshiharu, Barbara Ann, and
>> Alexander Nitschke (aka Doitsuyama).
>>
>> I believe that Kobayashi-san is still with us.  He posts the succinct 
>> and
>> useful torikumi and results lists during the honbasho.  Doitsuyama 
>> posts his
>> game results, but doesn't get involved in the flames.
>>
>> Masumi Abe should also appear on that list.  His posts were as 
>> informative
>> as anyone's over the years.  He may have quit over health issues, 
>> unlike
>> others who quit due to our inability to stop flaming one another.
>>
>> Is anyone still in touch with Abe-san?
>>
>> John
>
> *
> John:  I worked with Abe Masumi-san for several years when we joined a 
> small start-up company, Communications Intelligence Corporation (CIC) 
> in Tokyo.  Abe-san, who had worked for a Japanese language group at 
> Xerox, was the Director of our Japanese language group -- the product 
> was a handwriting recognition system for hiragana, katakana, and Kanji 
> characters, as well as the alphanumerics.
>
> Abe-san trained all of our linguists whose job was to define all of 
> the 2,200 Joyo Kanji characters, with all of the many variations, into 
> a stroke-oriented dictionary that could be programmed by our software 
> people.  He did an outstanding job.
>
> I'll try to contact him -- the last I heard is that he is still in the 
> San Francisco Bay area, where I live.  I haven't seen him in about 
> three years, since we had a nice Japanese sushi lunch at Toshi-ya in 
> Menlo Park.
>
> I'll contact him if I can and try to get him back on the sumo 
> newsgroup -- he was indeed the most sophisticated and knowledgeable 
> contributor to this group for several years.  His knowledge and 
> opinions on the current situation would be very valuable.
>
> Cheers,
>
> earle
> *
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