On Jul 31, 8:07=A0am, eyeball <eyeball2002...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jul 31, 1:15=A0am, Ed Pirrero <gcmschem...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Jul 29, 6:58=A0am, eyeball <eyeball2002...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > On Jul 29, 9:30=A0am, Don Stauffer in Minnesota
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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
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s,
> > > > > and I'm amazed it's still around, and people are posting! I
loved=
this
> > > > > group; a single place for all model talk, but sadly my ISP no
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ger
> > > > > has a usenet server to grab news from. As it is now I'm reading
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rom
> > > > > 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
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e
> > > > 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
younge=
r
> > > posters.
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> > Yes, we young'uns may just have to keep the flame burning.
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> > I got tired of reading the right-wing idiots spout their talk-radio
> > propaganda at every person who made an OT post. =A0Dog forbid they
> > actually take their crappola to a POLITICS newsgroup. =A0No, just
throw
> > around their repetition of political party daily talking points...
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> > I decide that the web-based fora had more to offer, with much less
> > noise. =A0I read this NG once per month, if then.
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> > E.P.
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> This young'un is a right winger but not a judgemental idiot. What was
> that about political crappola?
That it doesn't belong in a modelling NG. It chased folks away.
Seriously, if you want to get an eyefull or an earfull of that stuff
you can get it anywhere, at any time. And ANYONE, no matter what
their political persuasion, can get those talking points directly from
the source, without it being filtered through someone in usenet.
E.P.
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