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   Aragorn to All   
   Re: 2011 HOT UPDATES   
   09 May 11 22:29:22   
   
   From: aragorn@chatfactory.invalid   
      
   On Monday 09 May 2011 21:54 in alt.os.linux.gentoo, somebody identifying   
   as J.O. Aho wrote...   
      
   > Janis Kracht wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Rather late, but perhaps.   Yours is just the sixth article I seen   
   >>> posted to this group this year, and the eighth since the spew   
   >>> stopped back on the 20th of August last year.   
   >>   
   >> Like everything else, newsgroups are generally not very active.   
   >> There as some exceptions of course.  Ubuntu groups seem active still.   
   >   
   > I always thought those only used the web forums.   
   > It's sad this ng ain't more active, had been far nicer than the web   
   > forums gentoo.org hosts.   
      
   Trust me, you don't want the average alt.os.linux.ubuntu denizen camping   
   around these parts. ;-)  The main reason why that group is so active is   
   because it's full of absolutely clueless people with Microsoft Windows   
   habits. ;-)   
      
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