The Wicked Ear <none@none.net> wrote:
>>If you were for real on the cease-and-desist letter (I have my doubts,
>>frankly), you'll know to appreciate your options.
Why would you doubt her? What possible reason wouold she have for lying? What
do you mean by "you'll know to appreciate your options"? Can you please be a
bit clearer for those of us who don't know what's going on behind your words? I
find the overall tone of your message offensive, though I'm only an outside
observer. I'm almost tempted to say "If Usenet is dead, then what are you doing
here?"
>Hello!
>
>Usenet is dead. Face it. It's a relic and has been for some time.
>I'm surprised you even want to put this to discussion. For day to
>day topics, it's too impersonal and ephemeral, and has been for quite
>some time; forums took over, then the 'social media' came to be added
>on top of all that. Archives, archives, archives.
>
>The thing you're into, here, however -- that's a different thing.
>For stuff like that, there's The Pirate Bay. In that niche, for
>people like you (?), granted, usenet offers more potential user-to-
>user interaction (than TPB), which you seem to thrive on (and no --
>that's not a contradiction -- read carefully).
>
>If you were for real on the cease-and-desist letter (I have my doubts,
>frankly), you'll know to appreciate your options.
>
>Note how I've avoided taking sides in whether or not to regret the
>demise of usenet. Ok -- I will now: -- I deeply do regret it, for a
>variety of reasons; but that's just, well, a mixture of spoiled humanity
>and 'progress'.
>
>Regards,
>twe
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