Re: questions

Bart Goddard wrote:
"[none]" <name@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:BtAHi.5787$FO2.4795@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

i would like to
see if a moderated version of what used to be ASC has been able to
dig itself out of the quagmire it had become and return to something
that originally drew me to participate in ASC back at its zenith.

Not likely. Usenet used to be hot and cutting edge. The younger
folks think of it as old-fashioned now, and the older folks are tired
of it. (In general.) Usenet will eventually go the way of Gopher.
The rousing good discussions we had 15 years ago just can't happen
today, because
1. We're all 15 years older and we're not as passionate as we were
and 2. the young folks do their flaming elsewhere.

B.

Except me, I'm only ten years older than I was then.

bernie.. metabolism slowing with age?


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"Official ASC Shaman"


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