From: nospam@example.net   
      
   Good evening oldernew,   
      
   On Fri, 2 Feb 2024, oldernow wrote:   
      
   >> Food for thought. =) Maybe alt.philosophy will live again? ;)   
   >   
   > It's funny you should mention that, because I honestly came to   
   > the newsgroup today intending to post some form of "goodbye" that   
   > highlighted that (I don't remember exactly how I put it) "I'm the   
   > one that kills newsgroups" I whined elsewhere. It got so quiet here   
   > compared to how it appeared before I arrived that sneaking suspicions   
   > others were "holding their fingers", as it were, were blossoming   
   > into a whole lot of "self" pity.... So I can't tell you how much   
   > I appreciated seeing your three new replies to me. Thank you.   
      
   You're welcome!   
      
   But let me also add that I think a certain amount of patience is needed   
   on the usenet. Dead groups blossoms suddenly, and then die and lie   
   dormant for a long time, only to blossom again after months (or years?).   
      
   This, in my opinion, is not the adrenaline loaded minute by minute   
   interaction of social media and other modern platform. I see this space   
   as a mix of the worst and the best the new has to offer in a form of   
   gentlemans cocktail of slow communication. ;)   
      
   > But, then, I'm also fresh off a disappointing stint in "Gemini"   
   > (protocol) realms. People therein like to harp on loving "smolnet",   
   > and finding some kind of satisfaction in a combination of not   
   > interacting with each other, and also writing at a frequency that   
      
   Ahh... I did spend some time on gopher, and I found it charming. Not so   
   much for interaction, but for the psychology of the people it tends to   
   attract. I got a feeling of world weariness and I enjoyed the slow paced   
   writing of some of the people I found there.   
      
   The gemini project I do not understand at all. It seems like they want   
   to have their cake and eat it too, which never works.   
      
   > feels closer to "never" than to "incessantly" to me... so I'm   
   > somewhat smarting from that experience. To me there's no point   
   > in blah blah'ing my life experiences onto others' screens if it   
   > doesn't lead to interaction.   
   >   
   > Anyway, thanks again for replying!   
      
   You're welcome!   
      
   Best regards,   
   Daniel   
      
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