From: sailorterra@gov.crystaltokyo.jp   
      
   On 2009-01-04 01:15:11 +0900, The Wanderer  said:   
      
   > SailorTerra wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2009-01-03 23:07:40 +0900, The Wanderer   
   >>  said:   
   >>   
   >>> SailorTerra wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> I spent ten days in Tokyo, and about three days in the area   
   >>>> around Juuban. I took a lot of Sailor Moon related pictures if   
   >>>> anyone is interested in seeing them. Let me know there's some   
   >>>> life left here and I'll post links.   
   >>>   
   >>> I don't know about "life", but I do check the group whenever   
   >>> there's something new posted - which is fairly rare if you don't   
   >>> count spam; even counting the spam, there have been a grand total   
   >>> of 15 posts in the past two months.   
   >>   
   >> So I have noticed. But honestly, I don't see how usenet is able to   
   >> keep up these days. We need to up and migrate afsm over to a new   
   >> forum system.   
   >   
   > I don't think so. I wouldn't make use of e.g. any Web-based forum, for   
   > various reasons mainly to do with inconvenience, and I hold that there's   
   > nothing wrong with Usenet except increasing obscurity.   
      
   It seems fine enough if people would use it, which goes right to the   
   heart of your comment about obscurity. When I say it can't hold its   
   own, it is largely because of web-based forums that integrate avatars,   
   signatures, titles, embedded images/sounds/videos etc. On a web-based   
   forum, I wouldn't need to post links to my pictures; I could just embed   
   them. As it is, I'll need to set up some sort of quickie html page and   
   link it here. That seems rather inconvienent now. In the 90s, back when   
   this list was in its heyday, sure, that made sense, but now... And so   
   people don't come. And that means that the obscurity is the problem!   
      
   > Most of the reader/poster base seems to have already either migrated to   
   > other forums or disappeared entirely, but a.f.s-m itself remains where   
   > it always was - and that's not only a good thing but, given the nature   
   > of Usenet, quite possibly an unavoidable one.   
      
   Disappeared entirely compared to who I know has moved elsewhere. I saw   
   Phoenix about a year ago in person. I know than Ian, Lauren, KitKat,   
   and Taiki are still on the #afsm IRC channel. Scortia is still active   
   in various anime-sub cultures like cosplaying. She's visible enough   
   online to keep track of. And the #fanfics crew is still as active as   
   ever, although none of these people have actually posted in a long time   
   as far as I can tell.   
      
   If there was a mass migration somewhere, I missed it.   
      
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