Re: **THIS FORUM WILL BE SHUT DOWN SOON**

On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 at 05:14:44, pop <[email protected]> wrote (my 
responses usually follow points raised):
>Sailfish wrote on 3/27/2021 6:42 PM:
>> My bloviated meandering follows what Chris Ilias graced us with on 
>>3/27/2021 1:11 PM:

Thanks for relaying this; he obviously decided we in mozilla.general 
weren't worthy of being told.
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>>> *WHERE TO GO FOR SUPPORT*
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>>> If you prefer newsgroups, there may be newsgroups on Usenet where 
>>>you can find Firefox support. If not, try 
>>>netscape.public.mozilla.browser.
>>>
I wasn't sure, but that actually is a newsgroup! (Or was at some time.) 
[The only ones with thunderbird I could find are: one that's obviously 
about some AMD hardware; one that has .fr. in the name so I presume is 
French; ubc.residence.thunderbird, which I doubt is relevant; and two 
that start mozilla., which I assume will die.]

Is there any reason why we can't just migrate the existing names to the 
outside usenet, rather than creating new alt.* ones? I know it would be 
a new top-level whatever, but other such exist, such as demon.*, at 
least two of which still exist and are in use, despite Demon Internet 
having ceased to exist some years ago.
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>> This has been a pleasant place to visit and I enjoyed most of the 
>>people I've had the pleasure to engage with. But, as with Archie, 
>>Veronica, Jughead, Powwow, Finger, Whois and other unprofitable 
>>nascent technologies, eventually the time langoliers devour them and 
>>only leave faint memories for those old timers who had experienced 
>>them until even those find a resting place in the wikipedia catacombs.
>>
>+1
>
+1
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