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   Troels Forchhammer to All   
   Re: Saving Usenet communities (was: No n   
   13 Jun 09 00:31:43   
   
   XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis, rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.fan.tolkien   
   From: Troels@ThisIsFake.invalid   
      
   In message    
   Steuard Jensen  spoke these staves:   
   >   
      
      
      
   > There's obviously a strong desire to keep the groups alive, so we'll   
   > make it happen.  It may just take a little work.   
      
   And the Steward of the FAQ went out onto the Road, and he saw that it   
   went ever on and on, but holding up the FAQ he started marching   
   determinedly ahead, and out from all the lesser roads, from the   
   streets, from the paths and even from the smallest tracks came lurkers   
   and posters alike who followed the banner of the FAQ down the Great   
   Road from the door where it began. Now far ahead the FAQ has gone, and   
   I must follow, if I can  . . .   
      
   . . . sorry about that; it was just a mental image that I had to   
   exorcise in this manner ;-)   
      
   I do believe you're right that we need to increase our 'footprint' on   
   the web -- and probably also do some advertising whereever we meet   
   other people who might share our love for Tolkien's work -- if we are   
   to revitalise our community here with some more new blood.   
      
   --   
   Troels Forchhammer   
   Valid e-mail is    
   Please put [AFT], [RABT] or 'Tolkien' in subject.   
      
       The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the   
       same level of thinking with which we created them.   
    - Albert Einstein   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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