🚀 go-pugleaf

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).


[0] Not that I'm complaining: he was the person who made me give up my
25-year killfile celibacy, and I now have no need of it.

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Simon Turner                                    DoD #0461
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