Charles F Frost <charles@f.frost> wrote in news:060620150546003008%
charles@f.frost:
> In article <0001HW.D197DC8A001BB7D7B02919BF@news-europe.giganews.com>,
> Claymore <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> What's happened? I haven't seen any new posts for quite some time.
>> Is it me? Is it Giganews? Grouse - are you out there?
>
> I sure hope that Grouse is OK and that nothing bad has happened to him.
> After all, so far he's only up to the letter D. :-0
>
> A while back, Indexxer was saying something (ISTR) about being tired of
> it all and intending to take a long break from posting. Or maybe even
> retire? A pity, if so. Thanks for all the goodies, over the years.
>
> There are also some external forces that have been drastically reducing
> the amount of non-spam Usenet binaries traffic. A lot of people have
> given up on the groups (which might be seen as old and boring and
> low-tech these days) and have moved elsewhere (swarm, swarm). And
> there are a number of copyright holders who employ packs of psychotic,
> rabid law-school graduates to threaten and intimidate fils-sharers,
> sometimes extorting money from them. Mostly Bittorrent, but also some
> Usenet. (There's news in general at the torrentfreak.com web site, but
> nothing about Usenet lately that I can remember. But you can do a
> search there for "usenet" to find some old articles that will give you
> the idea.) In general that has a "chilling effect", as they say, even
> if only a small number of posters are directly hassled by it, because
> the word gets out and a lot of other people decide to play it safe from
> then on, and who can blame them? Who needs that huge hassle and
> expense? I don't even *know* a lawyer, let alone have the money to pay
> one to defend me in court.
>
> In recent years, Usenet binaries groups have no longer been able to fly
> under the radar. Our good old days hereabouts were, in fact, over long
> ago. I think now it has become a matter of scrounging, taking what one
> can get, and not expecting too much. It's just the way it goes.
>
> Thanks again to all of the posters, as always.
>
>> Let it be like yesterday
>> Please let me have happy days
>> Won't you tell me
>> Where have all the good times gone?
>
> Or ...
>
> "Let a man come in and do the popcorn."
>
I am more concerned with the wellbeing of Grouse than the derth of
postings
I do miss both
d.w?
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