From: sirslick@fast.net   
      
   On Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 8:22:24 AM UTC-5, JE Corbett wrote:   
   > I doubt I will. Just not worth the time or expense of getting a new   
   newsreader.    
      
     Pretty sure I won`t. I`m an old dog, I don`t want to have to learn new   
   tricks.     
      
     But there is mixed signals, if you hit "learn more" you`ll find... "Starting   
   on February 22, 2024..."   
      
     So maybe an extra week in paradise.   
      
   > This group has already been reduced to maybe a dozen regular contributors,    
   > about a half dozen on each side. If we lose half of them which is my guess,    
   > the remaining contributors will be speaking to a very small audience. What   
   is    
   > our most prolific poster, Yellowpanties, going to do when he doesn't have LN    
   > content to delete?    
      
     He has chosen to become meaningless background noise. Better for him then   
   actually attempting to engage in ideas.   
      
     There is really nobody here to discuss things with anyway, there is Ben the   
   Troll, Gil the Martyr and assorted crackpots.   
       
   > The McAdams group died a sudden death when its sole moderator passed    
   > away taking the keys to the group with him. This one will probably die a   
   slow    
   > death.    
      
     It was dead for about a year here once, I would check in and there would be   
   little to no activity. I don`t know what brought it back to some semblance of   
   activity.   
       
   > I remember once coming across a newsgroup that interested me and I made    
   > a long and thoughtful response to something somebody else had written.    
   > After posting it, I discovered it was the first post made to that group in   
   seven    
   > years. I had come across a Usenet ghost town. I wouldn't be surprised if   
   that    
   > becomes the fate of this group, not that 99.99+% of the country will give a    
   > shit or even know about it.   
      
     It does appear that we will be able to read the archives using google. We   
   can relive old glory.   
      
     Ben had a conspiracy website, maybe we can go there.   
      
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