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   Dorothy J Heydt to seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
   Re: Um....where is everybody?   
   23 Aug 18 04:56:19   
   
   From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article ,   
   Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)  wrote:   
   >On 8/22/18 1:50 AM, Johnny Tindalos wrote:   
   >> Hullo rasfc'ers, where did everyone go? Have we changed venue?   
   >>   
   >> Had a look at the group and it seems shutters are banging in the wind   
   >that blows   
   >> tumbleweeds down empty streets...Tina's autoposting the FAQ (if you're   
   >reading this   
   >> I liked the bit you wrote about the cave people, did you ever finish   
   >it?) and Sea   
   >> Wasp won an award for something that I will investigate next...   
   >>   
   >> ...my fault for being away for so long, come home and the planet's   
   >been evacuated!   
   >>   
   >> If anyone sees this please could they let me know where everybody   
   >hangs out now in   
   >> the electronic ether than permeates our planet? Thanks muchly!   
   >>   
   >> Cheers, Johnny T. *pulls his coat tighter against the chill and   
   >tiptoes down the   
   >> rubble-pocked streets, peering into empty windows, ears alert for any   
   >sound, but   
   >> only the wind keens and the weeds rustle; nothing wings the sky,   
   >nothing treads the   
   >> ground*   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   >	Maybe it's time to come back and make this place inhabited again. The   
   >people who made it hard to be here are gone.   
   >   
   Yes.  I check the group every day, but it's empty for months on   
   end.  We don't even get the misguided posters who think we're   
   talking about making music in San Francisco.  :)   
      
   I'll come back if you will.  I miss what this group used to be.   
      
   --   
   Dorothy J. Heydt   
   Vallejo, California   
   djheydt at gmail dot com   
   www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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