[gurps] Re: End of Pyramid newsgroups

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From: "Troy Guffey" <troyguffey214 at isp.com>
To: "The GURPSnet mailing list" <gurpsnet-l at sjgames.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: [gurps] Re: End of Pyramid newsgroups


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> All Hail Discordia wrote:
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>> You can not blame spam alone (and my service filters), the sudden
>> influx of newbie users who could barley cope with the WWW AND
>> Email, with no education from ISP's, coupled with the rise of brain
>> dead
>> easy web forms, is what has nearly killed off Usenet. To this day
>> no OS ships with a decent newsreader.
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> I actually consider Outlook Express to be an adequate newsreader. But 
> maybe that is just me?
>
Nope, I've *tried* to ditch OE a number of times, but the fact of the matter 
is it works, & is more convenient than anything I've tried to replace it 
with, including Agent & Thunderbird.