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From: Ted Heise <theise@panix.com>
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: [slrn] Test for slrn IRC channel...
Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 13:21:17 +0000 (UTC)
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On 26 May 2021 01:45:46 GMT,
  andrew <andrew@skamandros.invalid> wrote:
>  On 2021-05-25, Ted Heise <theise@panix.com> wrote:
> 
> > To be honest, I'm not sure the user base is large enough to 
> > generate any worthwhile traffic.  I'm a longtime user, but with 
> > precious little time these days for things like irc chat.
> 
>  Well, I am retired now so I have time to give to such projects :). I
>  have a shell account with Blinkenshell so I will usually be available
>  in SOuthern Hemisphere times.

Wait, what?  Doesn't the Southern Hemisphere include more than a 
few time zones?  :)



>  And yes it will always be a small number of users...
> 
>  When you think of:
> 
>  --> People who use Usenet at all
>  ----> Of those people, those are not there just for PrOn and Warez
>  -------> Of those people, those who use slrn
>  -----------> Of those people, those who would use IRC at all
> 
>  Small numbers indeed :)

Yup.

-- 
Ted Heise      <theise@panix.com>       West Lafayette, IN, USA