From: boron_elgar@hotmail.com   
      
   On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:05:45 +0100, "Kerr-Mudd, John"   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Sun, 19 Sep 2021 21:21:19 -0700 (PDT)   
   >Beaver Fever  wrote:   
   >   
   >Is there anyone left here who can talk about something sensible? Or do I just   
   get BF's random thoughts?   
      
   There is FB, Reddit, Insta,Twitter,Tik-Tok and myriad other online   
   outlets for opinion, commentary, or dudgeon these days, not even   
   mentioning the group capabilities of certain messaging apps. The   
   Usenet version of AFCA, which really requires a decent news reader,   
   just falls by the wayside.   
      
   Add all that along with so many people accessing primarily through   
   their phones, and we are like buggy whips.   
      
   When something interesting from past days comes to mind, I have been   
   known to try a Google Groups search among AFCA responses and other   
   than the immediate reaction of "I see dead people," I am quite taken   
   with the diversity the group had in its heyday.   
      
   I do miss the community, which, from what I hear, is closest cousin in   
   the FB group (close, but no cigar, IMHO), but I just cannot tolerate   
   FB.   
      
   And no, regardless of what Trew tries to claim, the rec.food.cooking   
   group is not thriving. Its most innovative cooks and especially, its   
   culinary intellectuals are long gone, and its daily postings, which   
   are numerous, are filled with trolls and useless douchebags.   
      
   Sorry, Michael, but seeing that you, yourself, regularly dump 50+   
   posts within a small number of hours sometimes more than once a day,   
   over on rfc, you are indicative of the problems over there, not an   
   exemplar of the thriving community of old. Yeah, lotta posts, but like   
   the old politics groups on Usenet, its like flies on rice, which is   
   the closest rfc comes to a true cooking group. There are at least two   
   certifiables posting there and generating long threads these days. No   
   joke- they are used as group punching bags.   
      
   It should also be known that I am virtually shunned by the current rfc   
   group, and labeled as a sailor-swearing, unladylike (oh Lord, I LOVE   
   that) poster cuz I call out racists, sexists and assholes (this   
   reputation is well established, though perhaps described a bit   
   differently,  here on AFCA, too, of course - I have no qualms about   
   telling someone to fuck off.) . Gotta love it.   
      
   I keep up contact with a few of the old crowd, whom I miss, from here   
   or from rfc or a couple of other groups, by email rather than Usenet.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)