Hi there!


I thought it was the end. 28 days without newsgroup access. My ISP says it is an "improved news service", being "outsourced".

I have been finding keeping up with NGs tricky for some time. I shall carry on here, but if there are any more ISP problems, I might disappear.

Please feel free to write. The eddress in my sig will reach me - but no guarantee whether it will be today or next month - , or you can do the obvious with

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Soon, I shall tell you all about Nanki Poo for the last few months, as he gets more and more bossy. I am doing this in case I disappear so you can see what has happened to him.

I am sort-of writing this as the beginning of the final good-bye. I have no faith in the continuance of the service, and I shall *not* use Google or anything which involved a lousy newsreader: once you get a good one you realise how terrible using Outlook Express or Internet Explorer is. To be fair, they are not newsreaders.

I have enjoyed most of my time here, from long before RPCA existed. Despite all the nasty stuff we occasionally see, I still think the worst article I ever read was from someone - thankfully, I cannot remember who - who wrote a long diatribe about how "we" should all be proud of this wonderful country, which is best in everything. It was clearly about the USA, but it amazed me how rude it was for someone to write how "we" should be proud of "our" USA when she was writing on an international NG. It was also very rude that she never mentioned the country, and she seems to have no idea that the USA does not lead the world in [for example] inventions, money per head given in aid after the tsunami, and telecommunications.

I have some great friends who are Americans, and I love the country and many of the people. But until the minority who look down on anyone else learn to shut up, the USA will always get people around the world who dislike it.

Can you imaging Marina, for example, going on and on about how "we" should be proud of "our" Finland, which no doubt leads the world in some things, but inventing others? Of course not, but I bet she is just as proud of her country.

Sadly, of all the articles ever posted, that is the one I remember the most, but there have also been many wonderful articles. Many of the earlier ones are on my Storypage, and I have hundreds more to add sometime - so keep checking my Storypage please!

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