Path: ...!4.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!not-for-mail From: Ted Heise Newsgroups: news.software.readers Subject: Re: [slrn] Test for slrn IRC channel... Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 13:21:17 +0000 (UTC) Organization: My own, such as it is Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <20210524163330.767@skamandros.andrews-corner.org> <20210525183917.691@skamandros.andrews-corner.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1622035277 28280 166.84.1.2 (26 May 2021 13:21:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 13:21:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (NetBSD) Bytes: 1858 On 26 May 2021 01:45:46 GMT, andrew wrote: > On 2021-05-25, Ted Heise wrote: > > > To be honest, I'm not sure the user base is large enough to > > generate any worthwhile traffic. I'm a longtime user, but with > > precious little time these days for things like irc chat. > > Well, I am retired now so I have time to give to such projects :). I > have a shell account with Blinkenshell so I will usually be available > in SOuthern Hemisphere times. Wait, what? Doesn't the Southern Hemisphere include more than a few time zones? :) > And yes it will always be a small number of users... > > When you think of: > > --> People who use Usenet at all > ----> Of those people, those are not there just for PrOn and Warez > -------> Of those people, those who use slrn > -----------> Of those people, those who would use IRC at all > > Small numbers indeed :) Yup. -- Ted Heise West Lafayette, IN, USA