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From: "The Ghost of RSP-W Past" <ghost@machine.rspw>
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Subject: RSPW 2024 highlights
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2024 22:38:36 -0000 (UTC)
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1. Google Groups stopped supporting new posts or subscriptions. 

Historical content remained available. This removed several luminaries 
from the group, so they couldn't engage in provocative posts which 
encouraged more posting, or posting sprees which drove up the post count. 
RSPW cannot exist without the likes of Robby or Jason Todd, and everyone 
knows it. It also prevented tech-unsavvy posters like the ones attracted 
here from John Henry's hate-pages or the occasional Usenet reminiscence 
on Reddit or the like from posting here. Considering there was a Vice 
documentary which began airing four months after Google pulled the plug, 
and it referenced RSPW extensively, we may have missed out on a whole 
new crop of newbies. This is not only the most important occurrence of 
2024, it's the most important thing that has EVER happened to the group 
and that cannot be argued.

2. Chad posted ]v[etaphoid's real name, driving him away for good. 

Just when ]v[etaphoid thought he had won the decades-long battle against 
The Chad, his entire world was upended and he was forced to stop posting 
here forever. After the years of ]v[etaphoid ridiculing Chad, Chad's 
wives, Chad's kids, and Chad's girlfriends, it's difficult to feel 
sympathy for the man, but still, RSPW lost a very funny, if often 
mean-spirited contributor when Chad forced him into hiding and slapped 
him so hard that he will never, ever return.

3. Dink created dozens of songs about John Henry and other RSPW guys and 
put them on YouTube.

Even though he's a weird maniac, you have to admit that Dink is 
extremely creative and funny. These weren't great, but they were good.

4. John Henry got a part-time job and interviewed for a management 
position.

Everyone bagged on JH for not wanting to work, but this guy buckled down 
and made a serious impact in the corporate world. He may be your boss 
someday.

5. % shut down this group and remained undefeated.

Not unexpectedly, this Usenet legend closed down this rathole once and 
for good. Though many tried, he couldn't be defeated.