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Bob Eager
wibbled on Friday 09 October 2009 00:20

On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:09:43 +0100, Tim W wrote:

Indeed. However, it seems that the yoof of today aren't interested. I
run what is left of the usenet service at UKC - a place where usenet
has a bit of history (See
http://uknof.org.uk/uknof6/Houlder-History.pdf for a bit of it).
Traffic has dived to being virtually non existant.


Yes. I used to maintain the USENET server at Imperial for a bit - that's
gone now... That was used, but we were a "proper" compsci (as opposed to
ICT) department...


Hope you're not implying that UKC isn't 'proper' CompSci...! :-)


No, I mean "as opposed to advanced Word and flash-monkeying at the
University of Slough or somesuch


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