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Re: remembering MRC

#625062
From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 09:35
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On 24 Jul 2018 07:42:07 GMT
Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

> On 2018-07-23, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
> > On 2018-07-23, Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Some of the reason newsgroups are dying is that those newcomers no
> >> longer come by, Most never stayed, but without them asking questions,
> >> the rest of us just sit checking newsgroups to see if anyone has
> >> posted.
> >
> > Besides, they can't post pictures here.  Where's the fun in that?
> 
> Which is ironic, given that most of Usenet (by volume) these days consists
> of copyright violations of one kind or another.

	Yebbut you have to pay to get at most of that, the (few remaining)
free servers generally don't carry the binaries.

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Subject: Re: remembering MRC
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