From: artis@nospamplease.net.invalid   
      
   "norborder"  wrote in message   
   news:is86ql$ubt$1@dont-email.me...   
   >   
   > "Artisan" sayed;   
   >   
   >> "Giovanni"  wrote in message   
   >> news:4de60a2c$0$28486$703f8584@textnews.kpn.nl...   
   >>> Clockwork Door Hinge wrote:   
   >>>> "McPeart"  wrote in message   
   >>>> news:310520112127378955%mrf@mac.com...   
   >>>>> In article <4de591d1$0$1971$9a566e8b@news.aliant.net>, Clockwork Door   
   >>>>> Hinge  wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> I used to kick around here years ago. I think I went by the name   
   >>>>>> didact and   
   >>>>>> narpet. Then my provider stopped... err...providing newsgroups and   
   >>>>>> it wasn't   
   >>>>>> the same via google and the lot, but the new crowd has me back!   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>  I didn't post much but I enjoyed reading. A lot of familiar names   
   >>>>>> here including the ever charming Libby. Where does he get the time?   
   >>>>>> Is the Professor still around?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Anyways, forgive me if I try to start a thread that's been done to   
   >>>>>> death but   
   >>>>>> I miss the discussions and the humour of this place. I get my Rush   
   >>>>>> news from   
   >>>>>> Rushisaband, but I don't bother with the comment sections.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> JFL   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>> This place is pretty much dead, most of the regulars are over in the   
   >>>>> Pop Music of Social Networking call Facebook.  Such a twist of irony.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Yeah really! Sucks though. AMR was fun.   
   >>>> JFL   
   >>>   
   >>> There is an alt.music.rush group on facebook with most of the old   
   >>> characters. Not much more traffic there though than here. It is   
   >>> moderated, sort of, so no Libby, just apply for membership introducing   
   >>> yourself. No contest with ye olde AMR though.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> There's just something about a Facebook discussion group that keeps   
   >> people from writing as well as they write on Usenet.   
   >   
   > Damn fuckin' a straight to dat, bro. ;)   
   >   
      
   And I think I know what it is too.  Usenet has drive-bys.  Without those,   
   there's no troll entertainment, no malicious anagrams, no parodies, no new   
   targets or fresh meat.  And no cross-posted rivalries from alt.music.yes.   
   No mulletards to vent cathartically at.  None of the classic Webber   
   beat-downs either.   
      
   Not even a good month-long class warfare argument.  And nobody to say "F*ck   
   off, Raja" to, either!   
      
   In other words, it's too safe.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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