Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Evelyn C. Leeper" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Test Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 09:05:23 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 15:05:24 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4ceae905211b2f8c71208c694c313bc9"; logging-data="1445900"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Ukjq07vglBG6dRqepqcD9" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:JrtO/Im1oyA/e0cmS+5zgQ1SwA4= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2246 FWIW, you can expect a post from me every Sunday. On 5/10/24 8:25 AM, Keith F. Lynch wrote: > Paul Dormer wrote: >> alan@thewoodfords.uk (Alan Woodford) wrote: >>> Yours was the first post I've seen since Sunday... > >> Curious. > > I don't know which is worse, the time when this group was so busy > that nobody could read all the posts (and I for one had to resort to > killfiling all posts that mentioned Bush), or the current time when > the group is so quiet that important fannish news and issues aren't > even mentioned here. > > I'm hoping that all the censorship, excessive ads, random changes, and > hostile ownership of so-called social networks will result in a return > to the open, unowned, and uncensored parts of the net, which of course > includes Usenet. > > I know that at least one prolific poster is temporarily offline > because of attending a filk convention in Germany. -- Evelyn C. Leeper, http://leepers.us/evelyn, @eleeper@mastodon.social Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. --Sir Winston Churchill