On Saturday 06 August 2011 21:37, Wes Groleau ([email protected]) opined: <snip> > Well, I just noticed that every genealogy group in my list has been > completely empty for many weeks, until this. And the first "hello" > I posted today to a different group never appeared. > > Meanwhile all of the non-genealogy groups I visit have continued to > contain the sort of insanity Usenet is known for. <snip> I understand what y'r sayin'. Most of "my" groups are pretty quiet at the moment, but I chalk that up to what I suggested previously. I suspect things will return to "normal" ere long, though. Still, it really is a shame that usenet seems to be dying a lingering death and most of what's replacing it isn't worth the powder it'd take to blow it to hell. Maybe it's just as well I'm now well into my dotage and will likely pass before it does, tho' not by much, in all likelihood. Sunburned Ol' Bob -- Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas ----- The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes -- Thomas Paine

Bob Melson wrote: > On Saturday 06 August 2011 21:37, Wes Groleau ([email protected]) > opined: > <snip> >> Well, I just noticed that every genealogy group in my list has been >> completely empty for many weeks, until this. And the first "hello" >> I posted today to a different group never appeared. >> >> Meanwhile all of the non-genealogy groups I visit have continued to >> contain the sort of insanity Usenet is known for. > <snip> > > I understand what y'r sayin'. Most of "my" groups are pretty quiet at the > moment, but I chalk that up to what I suggested previously. I suspect > things will return to "normal" ere long, though. > > Still, it really is a shame that usenet seems to be dying a lingering death > and most of what's replacing it isn't worth the powder it'd take to blow > it to hell. Maybe it's just as well I'm now well into my dotage and will > likely pass before it does, tho' not by much, in all likelihood. > > Sunburned Ol' Bob > I think those folks who only wanted to talk about Sloegin county are all on one of the newer mail-lists, and so are the folks who only wanted to talk about "their" family. The rest of us, who have more than one family line in more than one locale, are sticking around here. Meanwhile a few years back my ISP quit offering usenet; I haven't had the energy to dig up another source. About that time, Yahoogroups started up, and FamilySearch's family discussions got traction, and yes, mid-Jun to early September is historically slow on usenet as colleges empty, and other folks take vacations. Still, it'll never be what it was back in the day when there was ONE group (Roots-L) and ONE "echo" and each of them several hundred messages a day. Cheryl