From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 10 Apr 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article   
   , Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
      
   >Moe Trin wrote:   
      
   >> Adam wrote:   
      
   >>> Jeez, this seems to be the only active thread in this newsgroup.   
      
   >> I'm no longer running a local news spool and thus am not keeping   
   >> logs, but the traffic seems to have moved on to alt.os.linux.mageia   
   >> as others have mentioned.  Even that group isn't exactly overly busy.   
      
   >        Well Mageia seems to be bogged down at the moment.So   
   >I joined alt.os.linux.pclinuxos this afternoon just in time   
   >to get word that PCLinux OS KDE 64 2013.4 had been released.   
      
   Yup - but if you check the article dates, those two were the first   
   posts to the group this month and only the 20th/21st this year.   
      
   Posts to newsgroups, first ~10 days of this month (using   
   eternal-september.org as data source):   
      
     alt.os.linux           175       comp.os.linux.announce      1   
     alt.os.linux.debian      4       comp.os.linux.embedded      1   
     alt.os.linux.gentoo      1       comp.os.linux.hardware     84   
     alt.os.linux.mageia    101       comp.os.linux.misc        127   
     alt.os.linux.mandrake    0       comp.os.linux.networking   35   
     alt.os.linux.mandriva   26       comp.os.linux.portable      0   
     alt.os.linux.mepis       0       comp.os.linux.security      0   
     alt.os.linux.mint       81       comp.os.linux.setup         2   
     alt.os.linux.pclinuxos   2       comp.os.linux.x             0   
     alt.os.linux.redhat      0   
     alt.os.linux.suse       62   
     alt.os.linux.ubuntu   1017   
      
   While alt.os.linux.ubuntu has a high post count, much of that seems to   
   be useless noise and trolls.   alt.os.linux.mint isn't much better.   
      
           Old guy   
      
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