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   Stefan Ram to Johanne Fairchild   
   Re: If you were to design a netnews prot   
   02 Sep 24 12:12:07   
   
   From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   Johanne Fairchild  wrote or quoted:   
   >ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:   
   >>Johanne Fairchild  wrote or quoted:   
   >>>In the 00s (first decade), we had lots of very technical conversations.   
   >>>I remember comp.lang.c.  Wow.  It was full of very knowledgeable C   
   >>>programmers.  You can hardly see that now.   
   >>Ben Bacarisse and James Kuyper are knowledgeable as all get-out.   
   >They were both there at the time.  Are they hanging out at comp.lang.c   
   >now?  I unsubscribed myself.  Can't remember why.  Very long   
   >conversations about uninteresting things?  Can't remember.   
      
     I still have subscribed comp.lang.c, but by now I have added every   
     regular to my filter, so I only possibly see occasional non-regulars.   
      
     "Uninteresting things" sometimes might matter in C programming   
     (depending on what exactly those uninteresting things are).   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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