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Nostromo <nos...@forme.org> looked up from reading the entrails of the
porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>Thus spake Gandalf  Parker <gan...@the.dead.ISP.of.Community.net>, 10 Jul
>2009 13:10:12 GMT, Anno Domini:
>
>>Nostromo <nos...@forme.org> contributed wisdom to 
>>news:0joc551dkuik6k...@4ax.com: 
>>
>>>>I tend to live-&-work in groups such as this altho I must admit that I
>>>>have drudgingly shifted to the WWW world. Its been a LONG time since
>>>>anyone paid me to moderate usenet. Forums are much more lucrative in
>>>>many ways which helps me to justify my online addiction.
>>> 
>>> I never would have pegged you as a mercenary sellout Gan. No, really.
>>> ;-p 
>>
>>It was a long slow migration. Mostly fueled by my wife wondering why we pay 
>>so much for me to do so little. :)
>>
>>I didnt sellout TOO much. Mostly I found ways to do what I was doing anyway 
>>(keeping forums active, answering wildly variable questions on many 
>>subjects, coming up with witty sig lines) and get some piddly little pay 
>>from it (paid moderator, commission links on things I was recommending 
>>anyway, going into the Print-on-Demand world for designing tshirts and 
>>bumperstickers)
>
>Kewl. I wish I could find something not too mentally taxing or draining for
>my Mrs to do for cash online (she's chronically ill & can't work) *sigh*.

Maybe she should take up playing Entropia Universe (formerly called
Project Entropia), since it has a real economy and after some point she
could actually make real money from it.

Xocyll
-- 
I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
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