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   W.Dockery to HarryLime   
   Re: Usenet newsgroups 2025 (2/2)   
   29 Jan 25 18:44:17   
   
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   >>> When it was just you annoying everyone, we had nothing to bargain with.   
   >>>   
   >>> Once you were starting to get attacked in return, we had something to   
   >>> bargain with.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>> When Google Groups pulled the plug, it seemed like the perfect   
   >>>>> opportunity to create a group   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Sure, if you can't take Usenet then it's probably a good idea to go   
   >>>> elsewhere, yes.   
   >>>   
   >>> We could take Usenet, Donkey.  It's you that none of us could stand.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>> You drove Robert away   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Absolutely untrue.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The archives show this, and Robert Burrows himself can verify this essay   
   >>>> true.   
   >>>   
   >>> Is Robert here?  No.   
   >>>   
   >>> Is Jim here?  No.   
   >>>   
   >>> Is NancyGene here?  No.   
   >>>   
   >>> Is anyone here?  No.   
   >>>   
   >>> Only a Donkey and his socks.   
   >>>   
   >>>>> And AAPC is once again a wasteland.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Rather than the battleground you turned it into, Pendragon.   
   >>>   
   >>> It takes two to have a battle, Mr. Dum.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>> It's just you here   
   >>>>   
   >>>> There's also George Dance, Zod, Jordy and Rachel, to name a few.   
   >>>   
   >>> Zod and Jordy are your socks.  Rachel drops by occasionally.  It's   
   >>> basically you and George Dance -- just like it was the last time you   
   >>> drove everyone away in 2010.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>> 2025 will be a year of rebuilding Usenet after you and your gang of   
   >>>> troll thug wannabe tried to destroy it, Pendragon.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> And so it goes.   
   >>>   
   >>> Riiiiiight.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>> More on this later, time to walk my dog.   
   >>>   
   >>> I hadn't seen any posts from Stinky George lately.  Glad to hear he's   
   >>> doing okay.   
   >>>   
   >>> --   
   >>   
   >> I was also glad to see J. Corey Connor is alive and apparently well.   
   >>   
   >> We were concerned that his years spent at that toxic Marine camp in   
   >> North Carolina had caused him to become ill.   
   >>   
   >> Thank God that be seems fine.   
   >>   
   >> 🙏   
   >   
   > WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!   
   >   
   > As per usual.   
   >   
   > --   
      
   No, not really.   
      
   😏   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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