🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 20:51:58 -0600, "Thos" <tominama@peoplepc.com>
wrote:

>So this group is essentially dead?
>Damn shame 
>

Your comment is justifiably repeated a lot the last 5 years.  It's
dead.  It's not a shame at all.

It's the same in every USENET newsgroup that's local and isn't about a
global topic and isn't about swapping filez or warez.

A group is formed, then quickly dominated by a "Lord of the Flies"
style holier-than-thou clique royalty who run off everyone else
because it is "their" group, full of hazings for newcomers and soft
circle strokes rewards for regulars.  Kinda like High School all over
again for the short bus crowd.

Then when ISPs started dumping free access to newsgroups, these Netcop
Barney Fife  bloodsucking high and mighty types were either too dead
(!) or too poor or too stupid to figure out alternate access.  Only
proves how cheap was their talk.  Without an invisible audience
applauding their every comment, cliques move on to poison other
avenues.  :-)

My advice would be to either go Google groups or just find something
out "there" on the web.

If you are curious, checkout the Google stats for this group and you
can see how the Bell curve of postings peaked at 2001 and now the
current abandoned level is pretty much the same as when it first
started.  Yepper, it's dead and gone for good.  Enjoy!

Archive
  	 Jan 	 Feb 	 Mar 	 Apr 	 May 	 Jun 	 Jul 	 Aug
Sep 	 Oct 	 Nov 	 Dec
1991 	 3 1992 	 3  	 3  	10 	34 	 7  	30
29 	22 10 	  	 1  	  	 
1993 	32 	33 	 2  	  	  	  	  	 5 1
1994 	  	 1  	  	67 	57 	69 	109 	123
110 	81 	116 	125 	 
1995 	42 	 4  	106 	175 	203 	262 	290 	190
129 	127 	139 	107 	 
1996 	166 	172 	255 	216 	227 	201 	247 	225
279 	274 	154 	181 	 
1997 	245 	198 	150 	155 	130 	291 	126 	91 80
165 	135 	168 	 
1998 	153 	97 	117 	90 	86 	106 	172 	234
298 	313 	219 	162 	 
1999 	142 	186 	112 	141 	207 	174 	205 	212
206 	156 	188 	182 	 
2000 	278 	323 	255 	275 	179 	145 	182 	270
132 	176 	200 	132 	 
2001 	315 	223 	249 	135 	205 	403 	623 	444
166 	119 	127 	151 	 
2002 	317 	308 	388 	471 	449 	341 	222 	279 90
175 	110 	251 	 
2003 	237 	314 	275 	140 	206 	210 	116 	264
203 	150 	357 	195 	 
2004 	323 	475 	558 	245 	152 	167 	112 	171
160 	125 	310 	250 	 
2005 	186 	138 	87 	152 	72 	101 	141 	149 65
129 	90 	70 	 
2006 	88 	42 	55 	36 	184 	104 	153 	166
102 	66 	51 	40 	 
2007 	70 	26 	13 	 9  	30 	60 	65 	89 92
59 	46 	56 	 
2008 	24 	14 	41 	29 	18 	22 	33 	12 23
14 	11 	39 	 
2009 	52 	 7  	14 	50 	53 	68 	14 	12 16
6  	11 	14 	 
2010 	 8  	28 	29 	19 	 7  	12 	  	15 22
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