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   From: az.sandhawk@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/23/2010 2:16 PM, alienthe@hotmail.com wrote:   
   > On 4 Okt, 08:34, Sourcerer  wrote:   
   >> After a year, there is no interest in this newsgroup, so I'm going to do   
   >> with the FAQ as I want. Then the current one will be archived with other   
   >> older versions. I have a different perspective on cp than what is   
   >> expressed in the FAQ.   
      
   Well, that was always dangerous territory and very much a flash point   
   for flame wars.   
      
   >> The issue of retaining altcyberpunk.com. I'm considering folding the   
   >> material into another site. I've had to create a total exclusion   
   >> robot.txt because I'd received too many requests from people I've never   
   >> heard of to remove their posts from the archive. No problemo -- except   
   >> for the attributions in posts they did not write, the removal of which   
   >> would wreck the continuity of the discussions as well as the posts of   
   >> others. The robot.txt stopped the complaints.   
      
   Well, if it doesn't show up on the master index, I suppose no one would   
   object.   
      
   > So everyone got all professional, respectable with a LInkedIn, with   
   > tear gas reeking clothes dumped in favour of suit and tie? Who would   
   > have thought this only a few years ago?   
      
   You will probably find some flame battles between some members and my   
   college self from the mid-nineties. I predicted this would happen and   
   was roundly condemned for stating that. It's the way of every   
   sub-culture. You may have been one of them. (I was mh1704@appstate.edu   
   at the time. I can still find a few traces via Google Groups.)   
      
   I would argue that with the advent of resources like Make Magazine and   
   other things Gibson and others predicted having gone "mainstream," we   
   are, in fact, in the post-modernist, deconstructivist age those authors   
   predicted.   
      
   > I have a few CP files people might be interested in. Wikipedia might   
   > find this is "original research" and object. Would you be interested   
   > in preserving such files?   
      
   I would. If only for looking things up.   
      
   > Back in the days when it was hard to keep up with the traffic here and   
   > FutureCulture was like drinking from the firehose, I never dreamt this   
   > group would become this quiet.   
      
   Again, I did. Perhaps other, such as myself - noting that most of the   
   larger ISPs have dropped NNTP from their offerings - will begin to   
   filter back as their time permits. I've not only come back to say "I   
   told you so" but just to see what, if anything, is happening.   
      
   Is anyone there? Is this thing on?   
      
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