Could it be that people have abandoned Usenet just like the dragon in Puff.
I still think that is a drug song...
Brian

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You're right, there is a notable lack of traffic on here. As an otherwise lurker on this group, the low volume of interesting new posts is making my commute to work rather dull.

For want of anything better to say, my New Year resolution is to spend more time in the "Land of unfinished projects" (i.e. the garage/workshop) and get my accumulated junk in order. New multi-compartment plastic storage boxes already bought, in readiness. With more efficient use of space, I will create extra room to accommodate even more crap that I will inevitably buy/inherit/pinch from skips during 2017.

Terry.

On Thursday, 5 January 2017 08:02:57 UTC, wrote:
You're right, there is a notable lack of traffic on here. As an otherwise lurker on this group, the low volume of interesting new posts is making my commute to work rather dull.

For want of anything better to say, my New Year resolution is to spend more time in the "Land of unfinished projects"

I retired 2 years ago, finished all my jobs/projects and am now going back to work as a lab analyst.

On 05/01/2017 07:46, Brian Gaff wrote:
Could it be that people have abandoned Usenet just like the dragon in Puff.
I still think that is a drug song...
Brian

I'm not as active as I was. Mostly due to there being so much none Diy
crap posted.
Mike

On 05/01/2017 07:46, Brian Gaff wrote:

Could it be that people have abandoned Usenet just like the dragon in Puff.
I still think that is a drug song...

The actual number of new posts per day is still pretty high. Alas the
quality has slipped somewhat!


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John Rumm wrote:

The actual number of new posts per day is still pretty high. Alas the
quality has slipped somewhat!

My killfile seems to be bumping-off over 50% of posts ...

On 05/01/2017 07:46, Brian Gaff wrote:
Could it be that people have abandoned Usenet just like the dragon in Puff.
I still think that is a drug song...
Brian


The EU is a great institution, and we are mad to leave.
Global warming caused by CO2 is a real and frightening phenomenon.
Nuclear power stations are dangerous.

There! I've sorted it for you. No danger of any useful DIY tips getting
out, either.

They're more interested in getting blotto than posting, stupid.

Brian Gaff wrote

Could it be that people have abandoned
Usenet just like the dragon in Puff.

Unlikely.

I still think that is a drug song...

Corse it is, druggy.

On 05/01/2017 10:20, GB wrote:
On 05/01/2017 07:46, Brian Gaff wrote:
Could it be that people have abandoned Usenet just like the dragon in
Puff.
I still think that is a drug song...
Brian


The EU is a great institution, and we are mad to leave.
Global warming caused by CO2 is a real and frightening phenomenon.
Nuclear power stations are dangerous.

There! I've sorted it for you. No danger of any useful DIY tips getting
out, either.

You forgot: TNP needs to get laid, he is getting far too touchy feely
and left wing in his old age, Phucker is a valued member of the group,
and where would we be without harry's thought provoking insights into
cultural and religious diversity?


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On Thu, 5 Jan 2017 11:00:17 +0000
John Rumm wrote:

and where would we be without harry's thought provoking insights into
cultural and religious diversity?

Thankfully, I wasn't drinking coffee when I read that.

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On 05/01/17 13:00, John Rumm wrote:
On 05/01/2017 10:20, GB wrote:
On 05/01/2017 07:46, Brian Gaff wrote:
Could it be that people have abandoned Usenet just like the dragon in
Puff.
I still think that is a drug song...
Brian


The EU is a great institution, and we are mad to leave.
Global warming caused by CO2 is a real and frightening phenomenon.
Nuclear power stations are dangerous.

There! I've sorted it for you. No danger of any useful DIY tips getting
out, either.

You forgot: TNP needs to get laid, he is getting far too touchy feely
and left wing in his old age, Phucker is a valued member of the group,
and where would we be without harry's thought provoking insights into
cultural and religious diversity?


True, but I think that the way the news is panning out, everybody now
knows the score on Islam, migration, renewable energy and brexit, apart
from those who are so deep in denial that they cannot admit that the
only good thing that happened last year was Donald trump got elected and
we decided to try and leave the EU...

On Thu, 05 Jan 2017 10:20:25 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:

John Rumm wrote:

The actual number of new posts per day is still pretty high. Alas the
quality has slipped somewhat!

My killfile seems to be bumping-off over 50% of posts ...

Yes, removing harry's posts (and the subsequent threads) gets rid of a
lot. Same for Simon Mason.



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On Thursday, 5 January 2017 11:00:17 UTC, John Rumm wrote:

You forgot: TNP needs to get laid, he is getting far too touchy feely
and left wing in his old age, Phucker is a valued member of the group,
and where would we be without harry's thought provoking insights into
cultural and religious diversity?

I could not have written my book without Rod and these others as well.

http://www.swldxer.co.uk/TMTCMFTD2COPY.pdf

On Thursday, 5 January 2017 13:13:13 UTC, Bob Eager wrote:
On Thu, 05 Jan 2017 10:20:25 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:

John Rumm wrote:

The actual number of new posts per day is still pretty high. Alas the
quality has slipped somewhat!

My killfile seems to be bumping-off over 50% of posts ...

Yes, removing harry's posts (and the subsequent threads) gets rid of a
lot. Same for Simon Mason.

Then you will need TNP's killfile which seems to let me through, but he won't allow me write a proper one for him.

On Thursday, 5 January 2017 13:17:17 UTC, Simon Mason wrote:
On Thursday, 5 January 2017 11:00:17 UTC, John Rumm wrote:

You forgot: TNP needs to get laid, he is getting far too touchy feely
and left wing in his old age, Phucker is a valued member of the group,
and where would we be without harry's thought provoking insights into
cultural and religious diversity?

I could not have written my book without Rod and these others as well.

http://www.swldxer.co.uk/TMTCMFTD2COPY.pdf

Well that explains it then ;-0

On Thursday, 5 January 2017 13:17:17 UTC, Simon Mason wrote:
On Thursday, 5 January 2017 11:00:17 UTC, John Rumm wrote:

You forgot: TNP needs to get laid, he is getting far too touchy feely
and left wing in his old age, Phucker is a valued member of the group,
and where would we be without harry's thought provoking insights into
cultural and religious diversity?

I could not have written my book without Rod and these others as well.

http://www.swldxer.co.uk/TMTCMFTD2COPY.pdf

What did Lynsey de Paul and Barry Blue do, I remmeber them in the 70s

On 1/5/2017 7:46 AM, Brian Gaff wrote:
Could it be that people have abandoned Usenet just like the dragon in Puff.
I still think that is a drug song...
Brian


I think usenet use in general is definitely dropping off, perhaps
because there are more and more "special interest" forums, plus other
social media outlets. I think the traffic here is down, but most of it
is still worth reading.

On 05/01/17 15:12, newshound wrote:
On 1/5/2017 7:46 AM, Brian Gaff wrote:
Could it be that people have abandoned Usenet just like the dragon in
Puff.
I still think that is a drug song...
Brian


I think usenet use in general is definitely dropping off, perhaps
because there are more and more "special interest" forums, plus other
social media outlets. I think the traffic here is down, but most of it
is still worth reading.


I hate forums...

Took me 2 goes to find a Hyundai forum. The first 2 listed in google
were dead and I only found the last one by accident - but it is a very
good forum.

But it was so much easier to just search through the rec.* and uk.*
(etc) USENET hierarchies...

Trouble is those who don't understand USENET are doomed to reinvent it
constantly and badly... (With apologies to whoever!)

En el artículo , John
Rumm escribió:

The actual number of new posts per day is still pretty high. Alas the
quality has slipped somewhat!

A finely tuned killfile works wonders.

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In article ,
newshound wrote:
On 1/5/2017 7:46 AM, Brian Gaff wrote:
Could it be that people have abandoned Usenet just like the dragon in Puff.
I still think that is a drug song...
Brian


I think usenet use in general is definitely dropping off, perhaps
because there are more and more "special interest" forums, plus other
social media outlets. I think the traffic here is down, but most of it
is still worth reading.

Most these days want pictures. Or even videos. Text based is old hat.

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Huge wrote:
On 2017-01-05, Tim Watts wrote:
On 05/01/17 15:12, newshound wrote:
On 1/5/2017 7:46 AM, Brian Gaff wrote:
Could it be that people have abandoned Usenet just like the dragon in
Puff.
I still think that is a drug song...
Brian


I think usenet use in general is definitely dropping off, perhaps
because there are more and more "special interest" forums, plus other
social media outlets. I think the traffic here is down, but most of it
is still worth reading.


I hate forums...

Hear, hear. They're uniformly ****e, IME.

I read a few car based ones. None would tolerate the amount of OT ****e we
get on here. And rightly so.

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En el artículo , John
Rumm escribió:

You forgot: TNP needs to get laid

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...-west-38518647

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On 05/01/17 19:04, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artÃ*culo , John
Rumm escribió:

You forgot: TNP needs to get laid

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...-west-38518647

Yawn.

Come up with something amusing next time. That's just lame.

On 05/01/2017 16:19, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artículo , John
Rumm escribió:

The actual number of new posts per day is still pretty high. Alas the
quality has slipped somewhat!

A finely tuned killfile works wonders.

Yup I have a set of filters that do a reasonable job of hiding the inane
dribbling of some, but alas they do not also write on topic and
interesting threads to replace them!


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On 05/01/2017 17:10, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 05/01/17 19:04, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artÃ*culo , John
Rumm escribió:

You forgot: TNP needs to get laid

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...-west-38518647

Yawn.

Come up with something amusing next time. That's just lame.

Whilst I was looking at that BBC link, there was a news flash. Something
important, perhaps? It was this:

"A man shot dead in a police operation off the M62 died from gunshot
wounds to chest, post-mortem tests have shown."

What sort of news is that? It's just stating the bleeding obvious.

On Thursday, 5 January 2017 13:23:17 UTC, whisky-dave wrote:
On Thursday, 5 January 2017 13:17:17 UTC, Simon Mason wrote:
On Thursday, 5 January 2017 11:00:17 UTC, John Rumm wrote:

You forgot: TNP needs to get laid, he is getting far too touchy feely
and left wing in his old age, Phucker is a valued member of the group,
and where would we be without harry's thought provoking insights into
cultural and religious diversity?

I could not have written my book without Rod and these others as well.

http://www.swldxer.co.uk/TMTCMFTD2COPY.pdf

What did Lynsey de Paul and Barry Blue do, I remmeber them in the 70s

They wrote a song that God played for me called Papa Do.

On Thursday, 5 January 2017 18:47:45 UTC, GB wrote:

"A man shot dead in a police operation off the M62 died from gunshot
wounds to chest, post-mortem tests have shown."

What sort of news is that? It's just stating the bleeding obvious.

Same as the twins that jumped off Beachy Head died of massive injuries.

I used to like doing that. Sadly not being able to see does somewhat stop
one getting old junk and repurposing it or using bits for other things.

Brian

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You're right, there is a notable lack of traffic on here. As an otherwise
lurker on this group, the low volume of interesting new posts is making my
commute to work rather dull.

For want of anything better to say, my New Year resolution is to spend more
time in the "Land of unfinished projects" (i.e. the garage/workshop) and get
my accumulated junk in order. New multi-compartment plastic storage boxes
already bought, in readiness. With more efficient use of space, I will
create extra room to accommodate even more crap that I will inevitably
buy/inherit/pinch from skips during 2017.

Terry.

Do many labs need analysing then?

I was considering becoming an elephant palmist, but not much call for them
round here.
Brian

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"Simon Mason" wrote in message
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On Thursday, 5 January 2017 08:02:57 UTC, wrote:
You're right, there is a notable lack of traffic on here. As an otherwise
lurker on this group, the low volume of interesting new posts is making
my commute to work rather dull.

For want of anything better to say, my New Year resolution is to spend
more time in the "Land of unfinished projects"

I retired 2 years ago, finished all my jobs/projects and am now going back
to work as a lab analyst.

I just bypass stuff I don't want to read. its only text takes up little room
unlike crap web sites which is overblown slow twaddle most of the time. I
think the web designer has lost the whole idea of hypertext. the point is
not to make it into some art form or a learning curve to try to confuse the
user, but to link bits of text together across the web intelligently.
Brian

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"Muddymike" wrote in message
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On 05/01/2017 07:46, Brian Gaff wrote:
Could it be that people have abandoned Usenet just like the dragon in
Puff.
I still think that is a drug song...
Brian

I'm not as active as I was. Mostly due to there being so much none Diy
crap posted.
Mike

Well if they are I'm not seeing them unless they are all on very old threads
that is.
Brian

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"John Rumm" wrote in message
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On 05/01/2017 07:46, Brian Gaff wrote:

Could it be that people have abandoned Usenet just like the dragon in
Puff.
I still think that is a drug song...

The actual number of new posts per day is still pretty high. Alas the
quality has slipped somewhat!


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"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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Puff. I still think that is a drug song...
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I'll keep this thread going a bit more for you by pointing out that you've
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The think is since the new year, no thread not started by me has been
started, is this what you see as well.

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In article ,
newshound wrote:
On 1/5/2017 7:46 AM, Brian Gaff wrote:
Could it be that people have abandoned Usenet just like the dragon in
Puff.
I still think that is a drug song...
Brian


I think usenet use in general is definitely dropping off, perhaps
because there are more and more "special interest" forums, plus other
social media outlets. I think the traffic here is down, but most of it
is still worth reading.

Most these days want pictures. Or even videos. Text based is old hat.

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On 05/01/2017 10:20, Andy Burns wrote:
My killfile seems to be bumping-off over 50% of posts ...

+1

En el artículo , Dave W
escribió:

I'll keep this thread going a bit more for you by pointing out that you've
spelled "Uncharicteristcally" wrong.

Oh, the irony.

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On 05/01/2017 16:17, Tim Watts wrote:
On 05/01/17 15:12, newshound wrote:
On 1/5/2017 7:46 AM, Brian Gaff wrote:
Could it be that people have abandoned Usenet just like the dragon in
Puff.
I still think that is a drug song...
Brian


I think usenet use in general is definitely dropping off, perhaps
because there are more and more "special interest" forums, plus other
social media outlets. I think the traffic here is down, but most of it
is still worth reading.


I hate forums...

Took me 2 goes to find a Hyundai forum. The first 2 listed in google
were dead and I only found the last one by accident - but it is a very
good forum.

But it was so much easier to just search through the rec.* and uk.*
(etc) USENET hierarchies...

Trouble is those who don't understand USENET are doomed to reinvent it
constantly and badly... (With apologies to whoever!)

When I lost connection to newgroups a few months ago I contacted Plusnet
and had to explain what a newsgroup is to the helpline tec. His first
reaction was that they no longer exist!

Mike

On Thursday, January 5, 2017 at 7:47:00 AM UTC, Brian Gaff wrote:
Could it be that people have abandoned Usenet just like the dragon in Puff.
I still think that is a drug song...
Brian

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OK I have been quiet on here - in fact not posted for months. I've had a bad back since last spring - bad lower back sciatica - which could end up with surgery but I hope not. So I have not been able to do much DIY. I have just ordered some bits to finish off the kitchen - a bridging unit over fridge freezer. SWMBO is also nagging me to get the electrics finished and signed off - I never seem to quite finish anything.
I have been doing music-related DIY, including investigating Virtual Pipe Organs, if anyone is interested.
Anyway, Happy New Year all.
I do hope to post on here a bit more - not that I added that much to the body of knowledge anyway (shrugs?)
Simon.

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and had to explain what a newsgroup is to the helpline tec. His first
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BT removed their free new server some time ago.

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Can somebody post a new thread to see if its working

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On Thursday, January 5, 2017 at 7:47:00 AM UTC, Brian Gaff wrote:
Could it be that people have abandoned Usenet just like the dragon in
Puff.
I still think that is a drug song...
Brian

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OK I have been quiet on here - in fact not posted for months. I've had a bad
back since last spring - bad lower back sciatica - which could end up with
surgery but I hope not. So I have not been able to do much DIY. I have just
ordered some bits to finish off the kitchen - a bridging unit over fridge
freezer. SWMBO is also nagging me to get the electrics finished and signed
off - I never seem to quite finish anything.
I have been doing music-related DIY, including investigating Virtual Pipe
Organs, if anyone is interested.
Anyway, Happy New Year all.
I do hope to post on here a bit more - not that I added that much to the
body of knowledge anyway (shrugs?)
Simon.

Brian Gaff wrote:

Can somebody post a new thread to see if its working

Do you see pamela's wireless intercom thread from 16:06?