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|    Clocky to Myles Skinner    |
|    Re: Still here? I'm kinda impressed...    |
|    01 Apr 21 12:57:17    |
      From: notgonna@happen.com              On 21/03/2021 8:44 am, 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       >                     Numerous facebook groups are where it's at.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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