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 .

He wrote a very detailed answer to a question I had years ago: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61758735/find-longest-ad...

At the time I didn't realize it was the Tim Peters. Very helpful guy. RIP