Retired from Usenet

I first brought it up ten months ago, and now it has happened.  My last Usenet post was to the group hsv.general on December 24, and I am retired as of that date.

Usenet friends, I’ll be here at WmWms a good long while.  Come and set a spell.  I’d be delighted.

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6 thoughts on “Retired from Usenet”

  1. It was the first thing besides email that I ever did on the Internet, and my illustrious posting career is more than 13 years long. Certainly not what it used to be, is it?

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  2. Heh.

    Sure, there are parts I miss. This guy Corry I know is really funny and an advocate for liberty. I kind of think he’s going to eventually bring all of that to a blog, though.

    Conversely, I miss the echolalia and the near-total dearth of genuine intellectual exploration like a red-hot poker up the nose.

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  3. Interesting… I retired from my blog about 4 years ago due to privacy concerns.

    Hsv.general was fun for a while, but I only lurk there now. I got tired of being beaten about the head/shoulders over the most ridiculous things.

    A fellow lurker and I took bets for a while over how easy it was/is for the most innocuous threads to dissolve into Nazi!-Liberal!-Fascist! flamewars.

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