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   Custos Custodum to S Viemeister   
   Re: Moderator required for this group   
   20 Oct 15 15:46:17   
   
   From: me@privacy.net   
      
   S Viemeister  wrote in   
   news:d8mpooFa2ubU1@mid.individual.net:   
      
   > On 10/20/2015 5:36 AM, Jellore wrote:   
   >> On Friday, October 2, 2015 at 7:23:29 PM UTC+10, David Edmunds wrote:   
   >>> It may be too late to do anything about this newsgroup, but surely   
   >>> those of us remaining should try to do something.   
   >>>   
   >>> Anyone out there have any ideas?   
   >>>   
   >>> Whatever happened to the plans for Usenet 2.0?   
   >>>   
   >>> David Martin Edmunds   
   >>   
   >> Sad to see this once vibrant newsgroup struggling   
   >>   
   > A number of the more entertaining members died.   
   >   
      
   And most of the rest decamped to Facebook, no doubt preferring the real-   
   time immediacy of that medium over content threading. Unfortunately, that   
   only works if everyone is in the same part of the world.   
      
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