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From: Mark Jackson <mjackson@alumni.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips
Subject: Re: do people use this anymore
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 09:57:12 -0400
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On 8/15/2024 10:54 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article
> <0001HW.2C6ED89701867FC070000D52E38F@news.individual.net>, Heather
> Kendrick  <bunnyhugger@ameritech.net> wrote:
>> On Aug 11, 2024, Mark Jackson wrote (in article
>> <lhsrrdF4oeqU2@mid.individual.net>):
>> 
>>> On 8/11/2024 4:54 PM, Joshua Kreitzer wrote:
>>>> but considering that substantially all the traffic in it deals
>>>> with comic strips
>>> 
>>> Ignoring, of course, the material of no relevance spawned by
>>> cross-posts from rec.arts.sf.written.
>> 
>> So much of that crossposting was going on that I pretty much left,
>> after having been a regular here for many years. I just checked
>> back in today after a long absence and don’t see so much of it. Is
>> it still a big problem?

> Most of the cross-posting relates to comics I think, lately XKCD &
> Pearls Before Swine..

I didn't say (or mean) that it was a problem - I've contributed to
drifted threads myself.  I did want to point out that "substantially all
the traffic in [racs] deals with comic strips" isn't an accurate
reflection of recent traffic.

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