I had largely moved on from Usenet and mailing lists by the mid 00s when I started using Python in earnest, so I was largely unaware of the people involved even if I would have recognized the names. Tim's participation in Stack Overflow gave me (at least as best I can recall) my first real exposure to him as a person, and resulted in a cherished memory and one of what I like to cite as the feathers in my cap: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21297887 .