From: artis@nospamplease.net.invalid   
      
   "Doppelbock"  wrote in message   
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   > "norborder"  wrote in   
   > news:iq7jc7$u32$1@dont-email.me:   
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   >> "Max C. Webster III" sayed:   
   >>   
   >>> "Dr. Charles Dutton"  done said:   
   >>>   
   >>>> "Artisan"  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> Is this newsgroup for the music of the power-pop trio, or the big   
   >>>>> fat guy on talk radio?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Just saying... with all the fascist talk here, people appear to   
   >>>>> think this newsgroup is about Limbaugh.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Yes, there are quite a few right wing nut jobs here.  About 90% of   
   >>>> the NG. Better to just find a better forum.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> From the time of Neil's tragedies, this forum ceased to be so much a   
   >>> Rush forum as it was a forum for Rush fans.  Rush was the thing we   
   >>> had in common, but since everything had been talked about a bazillion   
   >>> times over, we started talking about other things.  Prof was said AMR   
   >>> was primarily about two things: 1) A conversation amongst Rush fans,   
   >>> just not necessarily about Rush, and 2) ignoring Libby.   
   >>>   
   >>> Since we weren't all Rush all the time, and there were forums that   
   >>> catered to those who wanted that, we became the red-headed stepchild   
   >>> of Rush groups, and quite frankly, we liked it like that.   
   >>> Stereotypical Rush fans kinda scare us.   
   >>>   
   >>> When facebook took off, and we realized we could do the same thing   
   >>> there we were doing here, but with pictures and other gewgaws, AMR   
   >>> started circling the drain.  We're still here, checking in from time   
   >>> to time, but it's most the schizophrenic ranting of Libby or the   
   >>> bombastic political rants of a few maladjusted nuts.   
   >>>   
   >>> So yes, this for is for the "power-pop trio," not the "big fat guy,"   
   >>> but don't expect to read to much about either here.  It's mostly   
   >>> noise these days.   
   >>>   
   >>> Sadder still to watch it die than never to have known it . . .   
   >>   
   >> Well said, except "When facebook took off, and we realized we could do   
   >> the same thing there we   
   >> were doing here". The pictures, gewgaws, and countless FB "friends"   
   >> have diminished AMR considerably over there. Plus I feel disrespectful   
   >> typing "fuck" in response to one of your FB posts knowing full well   
   >> your fucking mom and fucking grandma are likely fucking reading it. ;)   
   >>   
   >> The FB AMR is nowhere *near* the usenet version, Max. You know that.   
   >>   
   >> I have 29 FB friends, and 27 are AMR-ers. Keeping in touch with you   
   >> dickheads in the waning usenet AMR era is pretty much the only reason   
   >> I'm on FB.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > We need a real forum. FB sucks. You can't even drop a casual "your mom"   
   > joke on FB.   
      
   Make an invite-only group.  Sheesh.   
      
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