Is dott. Piergiorgio really still alive and using newsgroups?

[a425couple]

It would be wonderful to interact again!

The old Italian doctor !
For who joined this NG in the last decade or so, I was an old-timer,

whose leaves this forum when the S/N ratio caused by spam became
unmanageable.

Because the current server has serious filters, and frankly, also

because the political-military situation in US is very worrying the Old
World, I return in this forum.

for who don't know, I'm a Naval historian, and a first rank one, and

Italian, and of course, well-versed in past and current Italian Naval
matters, living in the former Great Greece (southern Italy)

Later, as an apology (?) for my long leave, I'll deliver a synthesis

of the last decade in the Italian Navy, a decade rivalling only the
20s... of the last century.

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

Can it really be true?
Can my old friend, the famous "dott. Piergiorgio"
be still alive ?
Did the two of us, who almost met and visited over
a glass of wine near the cruise ship dock in
Naples in 2004, really outlive outlive the
newsgroup "sci.military.naval" ?

[dott.Piergiorgio]

Post by a425couple
It would be wonderful to interact again!

The old Italian doctor !
For who joined this NG in the last decade or so, I was an old-timer,

whose leaves this forum when the S/N ratio caused by spam became
unmanageable.

Because the current server has serious filters, and frankly, also

because the political-military situation in US is very worrying the Old
World, I return in this forum.

for who don't know, I'm a Naval historian, and a first rank one, and

Italian, and of course, well-versed in past and current Italian Naval
matters, living in the former Great Greece (southern Italy)

Later, as an apology (?) for my long leave, I'll deliver a synthesis

of the last decade in the Italian Navy, a decade rivalling only the
20s... of the last century.

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

Can it really be true?
Can my old friend, the famous "dott. Piergiorgio"
be still alive ?
Did the two of us, who almost met and visited over
a glass of wine near the cruise ship dock in
Naples in 2004, really outlive outlive the
newsgroup "sci.military.naval" ?

Really.

and, albeit at 55, I'm still well alive. that s.m.n is following the
descending path of USENET is a shame, considered that the rest of the
'Net isn't exactly in good shape.

But for what matters, once a week I'll look here...

as a good appetizer on Italian matters:

- about the new "destroyers" (definitively a CG, displacing, for now,
14.500 tons, but seems that the projected displacement will increase in
the less than year or so prior of the cutting of the first plate.

- about the "LHA" Trieste, actually a triple hybrid, LHA, CVL and CG
(the latter is still not installed, but will a sensor suite on par with
the "destroyer" above

- about the middling/cruising ship line, that is the 1st rank frigates
of the Bergamini and di Revel classes, which now are even larger (and
more homogeneous) than the light cruiser line of yore. (19 versus 12)

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.