From: hsienzant@aol.com   
      
   On Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 7:53:36 PM UTC-5, JE Corbett wrote:   
   > On Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 4:16:52 PM UTC-5, Bud wrote:    
   > > 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.    
      
   Yes, he’s essentially reduced to spamming the website with the same couple   
   of responses because he doesn't want to actually discuss the evidence. When   
   we've gone toe-to-toe on the evidence, he lost every time. He’ll deny it of   
   course, and call me a    
   liar, but he’ll then spam the group some more and avoid discussing whatever   
   topic is under discussion in that particular thread.    
      
   By his actions you shall know him.   
      
   But when you have no evidence, what recourse do you have? Ben is reduced to   
   doing what he does because he has no evidence.   
      
      
   > >    
   > > 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.   
   > We could decide whether the conspiracy hobbyists have become more or less   
   stupid over the years.   
   > >    
   > > Ben had a conspiracy website, maybe we can go there.   
   > Maybe he has it set up for auto delete.   
      
   He found reasons to lock out everyone he disagreed with. I decided it would   
   not be worth my while to post there, as he would call me a liar and lock me   
   out in short order.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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