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From: "Davey Zimmerman #274" <Chadweasel274@zoho.com>
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Subject: Re: RSPW 2024 highlights
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 15:44:44 -0000 (UTC)
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% <pursent100@gmail.com> wrote in
news:o42cnW9cfYmvPen6nZ2dnZfqn_UAAAAA@giganews.com: 

> The Ghost of RSP-W Past wrote:
>> 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 Historical content remained available.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.
>> 
> and so i win

Nobody ever wins RSPW. Except Alex Cain.