Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anton Shepelev Newsgroups: alt.english.usage,comp.misc Subject: Emigration from Usenet [was: Re: PTD was the most-respected of the AUE regulars ...] Followup-To: comp.misc Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:58:28 +0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: <20240724115828.5d9d85d9305fe8300a91db5d@g{oogle}mail.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 10:58:28 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="95c6d2714e5778c4e0c4e996c91ed08a"; logging-data="1766002"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19UuR485sKh0zgb7vI7pEgHBU0S9addEb4=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:zPONRMBhPIhA2CZhayVBn1o2/yo= X-Newsreader: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.30; i686-pc-mingw32) Bytes: 2129 [Followup-To: comp.misc] Athel Cornish-Bowden to Steve Hayes: > > Katy Jennison is another RR who doesn't seem to be here > > any more. I still see her sometimes on Facebook. > > Yes, but she specifically announced that she was leaving. There is an epidemic abroad of people leaving clean, stable, accessible, and independent venues such as Usenet, Fidonet, Mailing lists, and IRC, for centralised capitalist corporate-owned cenusured commercial "products" that are huge, bloated, tasteless, and require up-to-date hardware, OS, and software. To me, this is a reiteration of the story of the red pottage[1]: selling one's freedom and cleanliness for immediate comfort. ____________________ 1. Genesis 25, 25-34. -- () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments