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   Auric__ to evul   
   Re: Is this still alive?   
   08 Feb 16 20:44:06   
   
   From: not.my.real@email.address   
      
   evul wrote:   
      
   > Sul meriggio di 2015-07-17,   
   > Auric__  enarrava tali parole:   
   >> panda wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> why'd everything die, anyway?   
   >>   
   >> I'm not sure. Waning interest would be my guess. It happened when I was   
   >> offline for a few months. I came back and a number of groups had died.   
   >   
   > Crossposting trolls...   
      
   I rather doubt that's what did it. Usenet has been declining for a number of   
   years now. In one of my groups, the FAQ poster stopped posting a year and a   
   half ago due to that group's decline.   
      
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   In what was (hopefully) a coincidence...   
      
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