Does anyone know anywhere I can download the text of Rashi on a complete maseches of Bavli as one large string of text? On Wikisource and Sefaria, I see only how to get an amud (or daf maybe?) at a time.

Alas, my memory is not what it was. I have no idea where I know this fellow from.

He does link to his Facebook profile from his MY profile. His FB profile indicates, by the way, that he works at Northern Hills United Methodist Church in San Antonio and that he's from Chicago. And that he speaks Spanish. But none of that reminds me how I know him.

@msh210 hmm, interesting. I just assumed you guys were connected on some social media or other. (I know him only from SE.)

@msh210 I'd been lazily wondering how well-known your first name is here. I think not widely, so there's probably some connection, but sometimes I have contacts like this where it turns out that no, we don't actually know each other directly, but there's some indirect connection (FOAF or similar). I always feel a little embarrassed too.

@MonicaCellio Well, as far as knowing my first name goes, I link in my MY profile to a Wayback Machine copy of an old Web page of mine, which has my name on it. First and last. But I assume he must know me because he's using my first name.

@msh210 oh. I wouldn't assume that at all. He might think that's more friendly in direct address than using a handle.

@MonicaCellio Hm, maybe.

And if you were a plain old user it might be a little odd that he looked at your profile and followed the link and then retained the information, but my experience is that people pay a little more attention to mods and top users, and you're both.

@MonicaCellio Maybe because I'm a conservative Jew, or maybe because I'm in the Midwest, but it seems odd to me to have a perfect stranger call me by my first name. Especially where it's completely unnecessary. I'd expect a stranger to call me "Dr. Hamm" if he knows to, or "Mr. Hamm" otherwise. Or "msh210" on Mi Yodeya. But, as I said, maybe that's just me -- or very possibly we know each other.

@msh210 hard to say. I assume that cultural norms about this vary by location, type of community, and probably other things. Some people are more prone to jump to a first name; some are more inclined to Mr/Ms/Dr $lastname. I've been addressed by people who don't know me as "Ms Cellio", "Monica", "Ma'am", and "honey" or "dear", those last being more a southern-US thing.

I think people also behave differently in this regard (and others :-) ) online versus in person. Thinking back to Usenet, I saw a lot of posts addressed to $firstname and very rarely remember seeing an honorific + last name.

Even though those people almost certainly didn't know each other.

@MonicaCellio Well, at least you get to know someone somewhat on Usenet, assuming you both post regularly in the same group. Same for MY.

@msh210 true. Back in the day, Usenet newgroups were small enough that you could get to know the regulars. I like that we get that on MY too. There are lots of people I don't know even on Workplace, to say nothing of the really big sites. (I'm not especially active on any of the big sites, but even if I were I think I'd feel like most people were strangers.)

@msh210 you should get in touch with Bachrach44. If you don't have and can't guess his email address, I can supply it offline.

@MonicaCellio I used Usenet from '97 until I lost easy NNTP access ('02?). Recently, some folks from a group I was active in -- including a bunch who were around in my day -- created a Facebook group devoted to the same topic. So I have the opportunity to interact with some of the same folks again.

@IsaacMoses Thanks. Good idea.

@msh210 at least you're not the only user he's addressed with comments that start in that locally peculiar manner. See judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/50302/why-is-the-wording-הערים-האל-us‌​ed-deut-442/50328#comment132857_50328 and judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/31735/… . Those didn't require digging to get a name, though

Sorry the links are broken

@IsaacMoses http://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/50302/why-is-the-wording-%d7%94%d7%a‌​2%d7%a8%d7%99%d7%9d-%d7%94%d7%90%d7%9c-used-deut-442/50328#comment132857_50328

@msh210 cool that you've connected again after all that time. I was on Usenet a little earlier (I lived through the September that never ended). I drifted away over time as volume (and spam volume) got higher, but I don't remember when exactly. Mid-to-late 90s, I think.

@IsaacMoses Hm, then probably we don't know each other. That's a slight relief.

@DoubleAA thanks

I got a "sir". (No, that's not my first name.)

@DoubleAA joke's on him, you being canine and all

@MonicaCellio I missed the endless September by some three years -- we didn't actually use any of those AOL disks, and I never was online until I got to college.

@IsaacMoses Dogs are people too. (Or is that limited to corporations?)

@DoubleAA That's "Double", no?

@IsaacMoses @DoubleAA my grandparents' dog when I was growing up was named Sir.

@MonicaCellio was that the punchline to "What do you call a 200-pound German Shepherd with a Tommy gun," by any chance?"

@IsaacMoses I don't know why he had that name (or whether they were the ones who named him). He was a good-natured sheepdog, great with kids and never threatening in my presence.

My parents had a collie/shepherd mix at the time and the two dogs got along great, too.

@MonicaCellio alternatively, if a dog can be named "Lady," why not?

@IsaacMoses makes sense to me. I also occasionally hear of dogs named Duke, though I don't know if allusions to royal titles are actually intended.

Getting late here --good time zone, all.

@msh210 @MonicaCellio ... and when I did go online, I used PINE for e-mail and tin for Usenet and even sometimes lynx for the Web (though I also used Netscape Navigator) -- just because those were what were most readily available to me at first.

@MonicaCellio You, too.

And you, too, @IsaacMoses (the only other person currently in this room). I'm taking off as well.

@msh210 You just destroyed my perception of you as a Chabad guy in California. Not sure why that was my perception of you, but...

@Scimonster we used to have a chabad-associated mod. Before your time, though, I think.

@IsaacMoses, HodOfHod? What happened to him?

@Scimonster (I'm not sure whether you misunderstood me as saying I'm Conservative or mentioned Chabad merely agav urcha, but I meant "conservative", not "Conservative". I'm neither a Conservative Jew nor a Chabad guy.

Going back a week, but it's been bothering me.

@Moshe (re the Vayigash question) Interesting.

@DoubleAA :-)

@Moshe when we graduated out of Beta, we held elections for permanent moderators, and the temporary moderators who either didn't run or didn't win gave up mod status. HodofHod is in this category, as am I.

@msh210 when I first encountered Usenet, I had access to the spool directory (via the network) but didn't have a local client, nor the rights to install one on that (university) machine. So I wrote a crude little emacs package to read news. I was already living in emacs anyway, including reading my mail from there, so this made sense.

Later when I had first-class Usenet access I used rn, and somewhere along the line, when I wasn't getting my access via the university, I started using pine for email. Still do that, actually, though I have a gmail mirror for the phone and for email that doesn't send the mandated plaintext version that I actually want to read.

Hey, HodofHod's beard has grown in nicely! :-)

@Moshe interesting question. And the whole torah is on-topic all year, so don't worry about going back a week. Sometimes it just takes time to notice things. :-)

@MonicaCellio In this case it took time to remember to post. :p

@Moshe there's that, too. Sometimes I only notice a question during the Shabbat torah reading, so of course we'll be on to the next parsha before I can post even if I do so that very night.