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On 3/20/2021 7:44 PM, Myles Skinner wrote:
> I was doing some research on a Commodore-related topic and happened to see
that comp.sys.cbm is still alive and still experiencing a trickle of traffic.
>
> I remember giving up on Usenet (or Google Groups, if you prefer) a long time
ago, because the level of spam was unreal.
>
> I was crazy active in this newsfroup in the 1990s. I used to maintain the
North American BBS list, and answer random GEOS questions. It was fun to see
my name is still in the FAQ, albeit tied to an email address that I lost
access to about eleventy
billion years ago.
>
> The last thing I posted of any consequence was over 20 years back, and began
with, "Well, I've been spending a little time tidying up my disk archives. (A
painful process...I had *far* too many shoeboxes)"
>
> Sadly, my life took me in unexpected directions. I still have too many
shoeboxes full of floppies. And now I also have bitrot. *sigh*
>
> Anyway, aside from here, and the Lemon forums, where are the CBM
converstations happening these days? I've been away a long time, but nostalgia
bug is starting to bite, and I have unfinished projects to revisit...
>
> ms
>
There's quite a few Facebook groups:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/commodoresixtyfour/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2503729026388481/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/12451061691/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/commodoreVIC20/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/782660058734927/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/commodoreinternationalhistoricalsociety/
Discord has quite a few servers/channels
(I'd do a search, it's harder for me to link them)
There's a few forums besides Lemon:
http://www.sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/
https://everythingc64.boards.net/
https://c-128.freeforums.net/
http://www.melon64.com/forum/index.php
https://atariage.com/forums/
https://www.commodore.ca/forum/
https://www.forum64.de/ (great info, German language, so fire up Google
Translate to participate if needed)
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?21-Commodore&s=158f0
fcd0d49f8420ef1ed73d4fb478
Kinda: https://thec64community.online/ (it's for the TheC64 retro product)
IRC has a few servers/channels for the 64, on freenode and ircnet and efnet
Jim
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