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   Michael Trew to Boron Elgar   
   Re: Welcome to our streaming future   
   20 Jul 21 11:02:07   
   
   From: mt999999@ymail.com   
      
   On 7/18/2021 9:49 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:   
   > On Sun, 18 Jul 2021 20:54:19 -0400, Michael Trew   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 7/18/2021 8:43 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:   
   >>> Most Usenet groups, of course,  have melted away or degenerated into   
   >>> full blown insanity   
   >>   
   >> Such as alt.politics... there is literally nothing of value there.  As   
   >> well as any rush limbaugh fan variant.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   > Michael, you need not look beyond our shared RFC, where the majority   
   > of posts are from a troll and most of the rest of the group spends its   
   > time antagonizing a person with obvious mental problems. I have been a   
   > member of that group since the late 90s and I have never seen it like   
   > it is now.   
      
   That's unfortunate, but at least it's still alive.  I'm also guilty; I   
   probably respond to off topic posts more than food posts.  I like   
   misc.news.internet.discuss and a few others; but the vast majority of   
   these groups are dead.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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