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   Boron Elgar to Questor   
   Re: Why Did Ed Asner Look So Old?   
   24 Sep 21 14:16:58   
   
   From: boron_elgar@hootmail.com   
      
   On Wed, 22 Sep 2021 17:44:39 GMT, usenet@only.tnx (Questor) wrote:   
      
   >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?   
   >   
   >Some of us are doing what we can to counter the stream of unconsciousness,   
   >although the paucity of participants, for reasons ably outlined by Boron   
   >elsewhere in this thread, make it difficult to sustain ongoing discussions.   
   >Apart from that face page thing, blame should be placed on former New York   
   >Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who threatened to prosecute ISPs over alleged   
   >child pornography in binary newsgoups and gave the major ISPs an excuse to   
   shut   
   >down their NNTP servers entirely back in the mid-aughts.   
      
      
   Forgot about that with Spitzer. Cutting off his nose, too, I bet.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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