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From: Bob Casanova <nospam@buzz.off>
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Subject: Re: Test
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 10:40:40 -0700
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On Mon, 24 Jun 2024 09:17:06 +0200, the following appeared
in talk.origins, posted by Athel Cornish-Bowden
<me@yahoo.com>:

>On 2024-06-24 06:28:28 +0000, Bob Casanova said:
>
>> On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 17:46:13 -0700, the following appeared
>> in talk.origins, posted by erik simpson
>> <eastside.erik@gmail.com>:
>> 
>>> On 6/23/24 5:04 PM, *Hemidactylus* wrote:
>>>> William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Bob Casanova wrote:
>>>>>> Anybody there? Bueller? Bueller?
>>>>>> 
>>>>> Yes.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Haven't been seeing any posts lately, myself.
>>>>> 
>>>> It has slowed down a bit since Google Groups went away and Nyikos (pbuh)
>>>> left us.
>>>> 
>>> Nyikos (pbuh, indeed) generated a lot of heat, if not so much light.
>>> We've also apparently lost most if not all creationists, and ID
>>> proponents are down to Ron D, if he hasn't left already.  Alas.
>>> 
>> "Alas" for "if he hasn't left", right?
>
>It may be that it was Ron Dean who was keeping this group alive. In the 
>1990s I participated in a dicussion group at which someone kept sending 
>idiotic posts, and a lot of the contributions from the sane 
>participants were stimulated by these. Eventually he left, but, as no 
>one expected, the group died shortly afterwards. There is a similar 
>story at sci.lang, much more recently, which is surviving now almost 
>entirely due to the efforts of one (sane) contributor, but was much 
>more lively a few years ago, due to the idiotic contributions of one 
>person.
>
Acknowledged. But I think a larger part of it is that Usenet
itself is becoming obsolete; most people who contributed to
sites such as t.o or sci.skeptic in the past have gone to
following blogs in which comments, thoughtful or otherwise,
are the norm. The serious "sci" sites may still be doing OK,
but I have no real idea if that's the case or if they've
gone to the "blogoverse" as well.

Whatever, 44 years (~30 for me) is/was a good run, and
communications venues *also* evolve.
>
-- 

Bob C.

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
 the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

- Isaac Asimov