Re: Wow... been away for a while and

On Jul 29, 6:58=A0am, eyeball <eyeball2002...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jul 29, 9:30=A0am, Don Stauffer in Minnesota <stauf...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Jul 29, 2:54=A0am, saus...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > I've been away from Usenet and rec.scale.models for almost 4 years,
> > > and I'm amazed it's still around, and people are posting! I loved
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> > > group; a single place for all model talk, but sadly my ISP no longer
> > > has a usenet server to grab news from. As it is now I'm reading from
> > > google groups.
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> > > Does anyone know of any free nntp server that I can download this
> > > group from?
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> > Well, I know I will take a lot of heat for this, but I will mention
> > Google Groups, a web-based interface to Usenet.
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> > Also, in the last four years the biggest thing I have noticed is the
> > drastic drop in daily message count :-(
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> I just wonder how much of that is lack of interest, how many were
> driven away by spam and off-topic arguments...and how many we lost to
> the grim reaper! I'm 40 and sometimes feel like I'm one of the younger
> posters.

Yes, we young'uns may just have to keep the flame burning.

I got tired of reading the right-wing idiots spout their talk-radio
propaganda at every person who made an OT post.  Dog forbid they
actually take their crappola to a POLITICS newsgroup.  No, just throw
around their repetition of political party daily talking points...

I decide that the web-based fora had more to offer, with much less
noise.  I read this NG once per month, if then.

E.P.