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   JeffreyHamilton to S Viemeister   
   Re: Hey, wot's happened to this NG?   
   18 Feb 15 11:01:59   
   
   From: bberesford@cogeco.ca   
      
   S Viemeister wrote:   
   > On 2/17/2015 10:13 AM, Fred J. McCall wrote:   
   >> soupdragon  wrote:   
   >>> S Viemeister  wrote   
   >>>> On 2/16/2015 11:57 PM, Mary wrote:   
   >>>>> "S Viemeister"    
   >>>>>> On 2/16/2015 7:51 PM, Peter Jason wrote:   
   >>>>>>> It just goes to show how a lack of Trolls spells the death of a   
   >>>>>>> ng.   
   >>>>>> Many posters have moved to FaceBook to avoid the trolls.   
   >>>>> I still drop in here sometimes, but everybody has disappeared   
   >>>>> trolls and all. I don't care much for Facebook. I liked it here   
   >>>>> better, but maybe I will go to Facebook sometime.   
   >>>> I liked it here, too, but...   
   >>>> I've thought about starting an scs group on Facebook.   
   >>> The main advantage of that is that you can keep the trolls out. The   
   >>> disadvantages is that it's very immediate, in that, if you miss a   
   >>> few days or a week, it's impossible to to find anything as it's   
   >>> very linear, - and the editor is horrible.   
   >>>   
   >> Keep the trolls out?  What would be the point of an empty group?   
   >>   
   > We might consider letting you in, Fred, as our token troll.   
      
   That's the one nifty aspect of Facebook, I don't ever have to any contact   
   whatsoever with Freaky Freddums, he simply doesn't exist and how cool is   
   that ?   :)   
      
     cheers....Jeff   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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