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   From: novles.r@gmail.com   
      
   On 2024-01-08 6:06 a.m., David Dalton wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   I literally just joined the User's Network yesterday. The pipes are   
   still good! They're just a bit crusty!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)