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   Message 135,964 of 137,311   
   Evelyn C. Leeper to Keith F. Lynch   
   Re: Test   
   10 May 24 09:05:23   
   
   From: evelynchimelisleeper@gmail.com   
      
   FWIW, you can expect a post from me every Sunday.   
      
   On 5/10/24 8:25 AM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:   
   > Paul Dormer  wrote:   
   >> alan@thewoodfords.uk (Alan Woodford) wrote:   
   >>> Yours was the first post I've seen since Sunday...   
   >   
   >> Curious.   
   >   
   > I don't know which is worse, the time when this group was so busy   
   > that nobody could read all the posts (and I for one had to resort to   
   > killfiling all posts that mentioned Bush), or the current time when   
   > the group is so quiet that important fannish news and issues aren't   
   > even mentioned here.   
   >   
   > I'm hoping that all the censorship, excessive ads, random changes, and   
   > hostile ownership of so-called social networks will result in a return   
   > to the open, unowned, and uncensored parts of the net, which of course   
   > includes Usenet.   
   >   
   > I know that at least one prolific poster is temporarily offline   
   > because of attending a filk convention in Germany.   
      
   --   
   Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn, @eleeper@mastodon.social   
   Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick   
   themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.   
   --Sir Winston Churchill   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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