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From: bertietaylor@myyahoo.com (Bertietaylor)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Once upon a time
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 14:48:32 +0000
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On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 3:06:02 +0000, Steve Hayes wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:23:12 +0000, bertietaylor@myyahoo.com
> (Bertietaylor) wrote:
>
>>Once upon a time say 30 years ago this newsgroup was illustrious!
>>How things change.
>
>
> That was because about half the members, misguidedly thinking that
> "newer is better", decided to migrate to Facebook, where they called
> themselves "The Prancing Halfwits".

They were upset by the posts of 3 designated trolls.
>
> There they fell foul of the Facebook design, where it is difficult, if
> not impossible, to follow threads and replies, since they are
> displayed out of order, if they are displayed at all, and the whole
> thing died of inanition.

Or they died out of boredom of old age and did not get replaced.
>
> I still occasionally see posts from Paul Ilechko over there, but none
> of the others.
>
> And without the input of those who left, this forum lost critical
> mass, and so there's little worth seeing here nowadays either.

No way to do research in past posts without google groups.
Usenet is a keen area for ai programming. For making robots look smart
with canned answers.
>
> There are also quite a number of alt ngs, some devoted to individual
> authors, which have little or no traffic. Perhaps if people who posted
> in those also crossposted to rec.arts.books we might see something of
> a revival, but I doubt if there are enough people left around Usenet
> even to do that.

Robots should be welcome. Interesting if they learnt to abuse each other
as was the custom
>
>
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