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Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ?

From Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ?
Date 2021-02-06 07:32 +0000
Organization Fix this later
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On 05/02/2021 20:48, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> Boris Dorestand <bdorestand@example.com> writes:
> 
>>> A group can sometimes be revived simply by posting a question people
>>> find interesting.  There are many more people monitoring this group than
>>> you think.
>>
>> I'm happy to see that.  I hope young people are here too; sometimes I
>> get a bit concerned about the future of the USENET.  Sometimes I get the
>> feeling that the many more people here are all old-timers.
> 
> Definite old-timer here.  If you've used any digital medium with holes
> in it (for serious work) then you are definitely an old-timer!

And Ben doesn't mean the write-protect hole on floppy disks.

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Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
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Why here are so few people nowdays ? H E <rob99999999999999999@gmail.com> - 2021-02-04 06:30 -0800
  Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-02-04 15:18 +0000
    Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? David LaRue <huey.dll@tampabay.rr.com> - 2021-02-05 01:35 +0000
    Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? Boris Dorestand <bdorestand@example.com> - 2021-02-05 14:38 -0300
      Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-02-05 20:48 +0000
        Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? Peter <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2021-02-05 22:12 +0000
          Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-02-06 00:21 +0000
        Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2021-02-06 07:32 +0000
          Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-02-06 15:36 +0100
        Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-02-06 15:34 +0100

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