Re: Poasters?
vallor <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.dev.null |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:09:40 -0000, William Stickers <[email protected]> wrote in <[email protected]>: > yeti wrote: >> >> William Stickers <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > The percentage of poasters with mental issues gets bigger every day >> >> Poasters? Is that some slang my babelfish just hasn't seen before? > > Prolly is. Poasters is wot the kewl kids call posters, innit. > >> > as the 'sane' poasters give up on usenet. >> >> I'm still here. What does that imply about me? > > Sanity is so last century. We're all bonkers now. > Some more than others. "Poor people are crazy, Jack...I'm eccentric." -Dennis Hopper's character in _Speed_ (Though, personally, I'm not just certifiable -- I'm certified.) > >> I need some ommmmmm >> about that? >> >> Hmmm... but sure it isn't any more like some decades ago. I get a >> large factor more mailing lists and RSS feeds via NNTP than classic >> Usenet groups. I like NNTP as medium and I'd prefer Usenet to at least >> recover a bit. > > Nice dream. I dream about winning the state lottery and being 21 again. But Usenet is still an amazing egalitarian resource, where "people like 'them' have the opportunity to converse with people like 'us'". (It's not _all_ meaningless...or is it?) -- -v