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Re: Anyone still here?

From FP <frank+nin@CnocDeas.com>
Newsgroups alt.babylon5.uk
Subject Re: Anyone still here?
Date 2025-10-25 23:00 +0100
Message-ID <mm4vkrFf86pU3@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 25/10/2025 00:40, Eirik Øverby wrote:
> FP wrote:
> 
>> On  05/08/2025  05:06, IcedCoffeeVoyager wrote:
>>> Eirik Øverby <ltning-september@anduin.net> wrote:
>>>> The terminal one wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> has everyone gone beyand the rim
>>>>
>>>> I just started reading news again after ~30 years, so what do I know..
>>>>
>>>
>>> I’m here for the first time in about  25/26 years. I feel you.
>>>
>>> I’m down to talk Babylon  5 anytime though…
>>
>> Yes, but if you're talking Babylon  5 you have to mark it as [OT] "on
>> topic" :)
>>
>> I've been looking in occasionally but I'm wondering how much longer...
>> just got an email from news.individual.net to say they are discontinuing
>> their usenet servers in  2 years time. That's only about a dozen a.b5.uk
>> posts away at this rate.
> 
> Funny. That's about the rate at which I meet people in the real world who
> have even a vague recollection of B5.. And yes, I do meet a fair number of
> people in the real world :D
> 
> Luckily I work with a few of folks that are nearly as geeky about it as I am,
> some have even read some of the books. And some of the youngsters here have
> watched the whole show - twice - in recent time, and keeps quoting from it.
> 
> Heck, even my gf has been known to quote G'Kar and Ivanova. My bonus kid
> quotes Kosh several times a year, un-prompted.
> 
> I must have done well.
> 
> --
> http://floppy.museum
>   ~ love over gold ~

I started putting DVDs on a hard drive during the year. Got all 5 
seasons onto a USB stick so I could plug them into the telly. But they 
looked odd. Maybe I used too much compression.

Frank

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Anyone still here? The terminal one <jholt0147@gmail.com> - 2025-07-09 22:57 +0000
  Re: Anyone still here? smith <steveski7@invalid.com> - 2025-07-10 00:35 +0100
  Re: Anyone still here? Eirik Øverby <ltning-september@anduin.net> - 2025-08-03 15:04 +0100
    Re: Anyone still here? IcedCoffeeVoyager <no_email@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-05 04:06 +0000
      Re: Anyone still here? FP <frank+nin@CnocDeas.com> - 2025-10-06 06:03 +0100
        Re: Anyone still here? Eirik Øverby <ltning-september@redbench.floppy.museum> - 2025-10-25 00:40 +0100
          Re: Anyone still here? FP <frank+nin@CnocDeas.com> - 2025-10-25 23:00 +0100
            Re: Anyone still here? Steveski <steve@invalid.com> - 2025-10-26 01:16 +0100
              [OT] Re: Anyone still here? FP <frank+nin@CnocDeas.com> - 2025-11-05 23:06 +0000
            Re: Anyone still here? Eirik Øverby <ltning-september@redbench.floppy.museum> - 2025-10-28 00:11 +0100

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