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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Jan 7, 2024, Tom2Tec wrote   
   (in article):   
      
   > Hi,   
   >   
   > Once this was a useful place but the spammers and commercialization doomed it   
   > and Usenet in general. Bad people do not deserve good things. Someday we may   
   > deserve to have decentralized, open and democratic forums but evidently not   
   > yet.   
   >   
   > We will miss those days, they were special in a way new things are exciting,   
   > fresh and useful before they become old, devalued and decayed.   
   >   
   > Good night Usenet, secure in your place in our history.   
      
   You can still read and post to calgary.general using a newsreader   
   such as Agent for Windows, Hogwasher for Mac, Pan for Linux,   
   or Thunderbird for all three, accessing a newsserver such as   
   Eternal September, and when Google Groups ends ongoing   
   Usenet access on February 22 there will be far less spam.   
      
   --   
   David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)   
   https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)   
   "And if I shed a tear I won’t cage it; I won't fear love;   
   And if I feel a rage I won’t deny it; I won't fear love" (Sarah McLachlan)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)