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    From beerbarrel@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 10 17:55:55 2022
    Group looks kind of dead. What happened?

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  • From pfjw@aol.com@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 11 04:44:37 2022
    Group looks kind of dead. What happened?

    The group putters along, quietly.

    Peter Wieck
    Melrose Park, PA

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  • From ohger1s@gmail.com@21:1/5 to pf...@aol.com on Wed May 11 07:24:50 2022
    On Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 7:44:39 AM UTC-4, pf...@aol.com wrote:
    Group looks kind of dead. What happened?
    The group putters along, quietly.

    Peter Wieck
    Melrose Park, PA

    He should go over to the guitar amp group. A total cesspool of daily hatred.

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  • From Jim Mueller@21:1/5 to beerbarrel on Wed May 11 20:27:41 2022
    On Tue, 10 May 2022 17:55:55 -0700, beerbarrel wrote:

    Group looks kind of dead. What happened?

    A number of years ago, some politician announced that Usenet was the main source of child pornography. That gave the ISPs an excuse to drop
    coverage. Now you have to pay to get decent access. Most people don't
    even know that Usenet exists. And, of course, various web sites stepped
    in to fill the void, whatever they thought that was.

    For antique radios, https://antiqueradios.com/ is a good place to go.



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    To get my real email address, replace wrongname with eggmen.
    Then replace nospam with expressmail. Lastly, replace com with dk.

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  • From ohger1s@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Jim Mueller on Thu May 12 07:38:14 2022
    On Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 4:27:43 PM UTC-4, Jim Mueller wrote:
    On Tue, 10 May 2022 17:55:55 -0700, beerbarrel wrote:

    Group looks kind of dead. What happened?
    A number of years ago, some politician announced that Usenet was the main source of child pornography. That gave the ISPs an excuse to drop
    coverage. Now you have to pay to get decent access. Most people don't
    even know that Usenet exists. And, of course, various web sites stepped
    in to fill the void, whatever they thought that was.

    For antique radios, https://antiqueradios.com/ is a good place to go.


    I just tried to register on that site, and the anti-spam question is "On a writer's desk is telephone fried chicken fountain pen Windows 10 cat paper not fish dictionary rose candy. What will be dinner?" I tried chicken, chicken fish, chicken fish candy.
    . All wrong. I guess they don't want any new members, unless they eat cats...

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  • From Tom Biasi@21:1/5 to ohg...@gmail.com on Thu May 12 14:36:02 2022
    On 5/12/2022 10:38 AM, ohg...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 4:27:43 PM UTC-4, Jim Mueller wrote:
    On Tue, 10 May 2022 17:55:55 -0700, beerbarrel wrote:

    Group looks kind of dead. What happened?
    A number of years ago, some politician announced that Usenet was the main
    source of child pornography. That gave the ISPs an excuse to drop
    coverage. Now you have to pay to get decent access. Most people don't
    even know that Usenet exists. And, of course, various web sites stepped
    in to fill the void, whatever they thought that was.

    For antique radios, https://antiqueradios.com/ is a good place to go.


    I just tried to register on that site, and the anti-spam question is "On a writer's desk is telephone fried chicken fountain pen Windows 10 cat paper not fish dictionary rose candy. What will be dinner?" I tried chicken, chicken fish, chicken fish
    candy.. All wrong. I guess they don't want any new members, unless they eat cats...
    How about fried chicken? Quite obvious.

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  • From Tom Biasi@21:1/5 to ohg...@gmail.com on Thu May 12 16:03:40 2022
    On 5/12/2022 3:44 PM, ohg...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 2:36:06 PM UTC-4, Tom Biasi wrote:
    On 5/12/2022 10:38 AM, ohg...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 4:27:43 PM UTC-4, Jim Mueller wrote:
    On Tue, 10 May 2022 17:55:55 -0700, beerbarrel wrote:

    Group looks kind of dead. What happened?
    A number of years ago, some politician announced that Usenet was the main >>>> source of child pornography. That gave the ISPs an excuse to drop
    coverage. Now you have to pay to get decent access. Most people don't
    even know that Usenet exists. And, of course, various web sites stepped >>>> in to fill the void, whatever they thought that was.

    For antique radios, https://antiqueradios.com/ is a good place to go.


    I just tried to register on that site, and the anti-spam question is "On a writer's desk is telephone fried chicken fountain pen Windows 10 cat paper not fish dictionary rose candy. What will be dinner?" I tried chicken, chicken fish, chicken fish
    candy.. All wrong. I guess they don't want any new members, unless they eat cats...
    How about fried chicken? Quite obvious.

    Tried that and a few others. Not worth the trouble. I was going to register mostly because I had some info for a guy with a Victor 52 with a hot running XFR that might have been some help for him.
    fried chicken worked for me. Nothing else to eat there.

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  • From ohger1s@gmail.com@21:1/5 to Tom Biasi on Thu May 12 12:44:05 2022
    On Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 2:36:06 PM UTC-4, Tom Biasi wrote:
    On 5/12/2022 10:38 AM, ohg...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 4:27:43 PM UTC-4, Jim Mueller wrote:
    On Tue, 10 May 2022 17:55:55 -0700, beerbarrel wrote:

    Group looks kind of dead. What happened?
    A number of years ago, some politician announced that Usenet was the main >> source of child pornography. That gave the ISPs an excuse to drop
    coverage. Now you have to pay to get decent access. Most people don't
    even know that Usenet exists. And, of course, various web sites stepped >> in to fill the void, whatever they thought that was.

    For antique radios, https://antiqueradios.com/ is a good place to go.


    I just tried to register on that site, and the anti-spam question is "On a writer's desk is telephone fried chicken fountain pen Windows 10 cat paper not fish dictionary rose candy. What will be dinner?" I tried chicken, chicken fish, chicken fish
    candy.. All wrong. I guess they don't want any new members, unless they eat cats...
    How about fried chicken? Quite obvious.

    Tried that and a few others. Not worth the trouble. I was going to register mostly because I had some info for a guy with a Victor 52 with a hot running XFR that might have been some help for him.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From jsowers@21:1/5 to Jim Mueller on Thu May 12 21:17:31 2022
    Jim Mueller <wrongname@nospam.com> wrote in
    news:1%UeK.1132$j0D5.518@fx09.iad:

    On Tue, 10 May 2022 17:55:55 -0700, beerbarrel wrote:

    Group looks kind of dead. What happened?

    A number of years ago, some politician announced that Usenet was the
    main source of child pornography. That gave the ISPs an excuse to
    drop coverage. Now you have to pay to get decent access. Most people
    don't even know that Usenet exists. And, of course, various web sites stepped in to fill the void, whatever they thought that was.

    For antique radios, https://antiqueradios.com/ is a good place to go.

    I second the recommendation for antiqueradios.com. And that politician
    was Andrew Cuomo and he got his comeuppance and it was well deserved.

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  • From Dave Garrett@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 14 18:40:23 2022
    In article <1%UeK.1132$j0D5.518@fx09.iad>, wrongname@nospam.com says...

    Most people don't even know that Usenet exists.

    IOW, Usenet has reverted to what it used to be like prior to 1993.

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    Dave

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  • From John Robertson@21:1/5 to Dave Garrett on Sat May 14 18:06:15 2022
    On 2022/05/14 4:40 p.m., Dave Garrett wrote:
    In article <1%UeK.1132$j0D5.518@fx09.iad>, wrongname@nospam.com says...

    Most people don't even know that Usenet exists.

    IOW, Usenet has reverted to what it used to be like prior to 1993.


    That may not be so bad...

    John :-#)#

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