Re: yea...finally found a free way back here

["Rob @ Sirius" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I say UP the revolution! Power to the peeps...long live VoIP...jeez did I
say that?

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"Jim" <alarminex@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Jul 20, 8:22 pm, tourman <robercampb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> RHC: Ironical isn't it that while RLB was here, the newsgroup was
>> vibrant, sometimes quite thoughtful, but always controversial. Since
>> his death, the newsgroup is a mere shadow of what it was before.-
>
> I don't think irony has anything to do with it. I also don't think
> vibrant is the appropriate description of what ASA was. My description
> was ..... a cesspool out of which you could occasionally pick out
> diamonds. On that description, then yes ..... I can agree with you
> that it is a shadow of what it was before. However, way too many good
> people are gone and it is understandable why they would not think to
> return. You'll remember, I contributed to that end. Had I known that
> it would end the way it did, I certainly would have been content to
> wait. As the saying goes .... there are people that make things
> happen, people who watch things happen and people who don't know what
> the fuck happened. I'm in the first category. I'm reasonable to a
> point. I've lived long enough to know what is reasonable and what is
> not. When a situation goes beyond all reason, I'm not a nice
> person .....anymore.
>
> As far as todays condition of ASA, I think that Mark is probably
> right. The end of the source of ASA's long standing bad and
> controversial reputation just happened to coincide with the advent of
> Blogs, Facebook, Twitter and other communication forums. and thus the
> lack of popularity of Newsgroups. You can go to just about any trade
> magazine, manufacturer, distributor ...... whatever's web site and
> join in a conversation about any aspect of this trade. All the
> magizines publish blog or forum correspondence in their letters to the
> editor columns .... so anyone can make his opinion heard or be
> considered,  very easily now days.
>
> I don't know if it's noticable or not, but every time I sense a
> prolonged lull in ASA, I try to pose a question that might raise some
> feedback or incite some posts. Sometimes it works. I might suggest
> that you try that also. ASA's demise is written on the wall. It's only
> a matter of time before it's only me and you left. And the last post
> will be ...... hey there sonny, do I know you ?  Eh?   whatchsay?
> Speak up?
>
> OH the HUMANITY!



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