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Re: Where is everybody? (cont.)

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From: Charles Richmond
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:12
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On 3/15/2018 4:38 AM, Simon Turner wrote:
> On Wednesday, in article <p8bph0$dim$1...@dont-email.me>
>       dave.g...@wizinfo.com "Dave Garland" wrote:
> 
>> On 3/14/2018 12:38 PM, Charles Richmond wrote:
>>> On 3/14/2018 12:05 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>>> On 2018-03-14, JimP <solo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 10:09:40 -0400, Dan Espen <dan1...@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nothing at all for the last couple of days? Is this maybe an Eternal
>>>>>>> September problem? I have visions of getting thousands of
>>>>>>> messages all at
>>>>>>> once.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ES is working fine as far as I can tell.
>>>>>
>>>>> I use a paid server, the three I'm replying to is it.
>>>>
>>>> I use Newsguy.  "It's quiet... too quiet."
> 
> News.Individual.Net here.  I'm with Charlie: it's disconcertingly quiet.
> 
>>> Maybe BAH is responsible for 98% of the traffic on this group...  and
>>> her AOL debacle prevents her from posting!!!   ;-)
>>
>> Could well be. IIRC, a few other times when she's gone offline, the
>> traffic has dramatically dropped. She may be the grain of sand that
>> makes our oyster grow a pearl.
> 
> Quite possibly.  She certainly provokes a lot of, erm, "discussion".
> 
> We've also lost Morten; and Speedo used to keep threads going with his
> unique style of "argument" (but he's been gone for over a year now[0]
> without the group dying to the current extent, so perhaps his influence
> looms too large in my memory).
> 

"Speedo" is the rat we burned down the barn to get rid of !!!    :-)

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From: Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com>
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Subject: Re: Where is everybody? (cont.)
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 09:12:36 -0500
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