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It seems that the era of free stuff on the 'net is coming to a close - or at least some of the free stuff from the folks that started giving out free service.
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What groups I may have been (or still am) a member of I haven't bothered with since almost forever ago.
Verizon, the proud owner, is doing what Verizon does best: screwing with people. That's sort of an aside.
My suggestion: before it's too late - invite those people over to CP ! We can add more discussion groups until we reach the bottom of the page - and the font could be a wee bit smaller. Bob will have so many new friends !
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The couple of still-alive Yahoo groups I subscribe to moved to groups.io a while ago.
A lot of the others won't be missed....
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Same for the one group I'm in. The crippling of group functions VZ did some months ago effectively killed the platform. IIRC all the was left was a klunky mailing list feature, with everything else removed; it was destructive enough I didn't understand why they didn't go directly to full shut down at the time. What's happening now is a mercy killing.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Generally speaking, there should not be anything free anyway. Nothing is free in this world, so if it seems free at first glance, it is because you get screwed in an non obvious way.
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I don't remember who told it first but...
If you are using something free, it means that you are the product.
M.D.V. 
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Rage wrote: Nothing is free in this world
An incorrect cliché. I have given away free things many times.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Na, you bought a self-satisfaction feeling by "giving" away some useless objects.
I can't believe you are such an egocentric person. 
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Specially unasked comments?  
M.D.V.
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Nelek wrote: Specially unasked comments?
Just like this one.
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I knew I was serving it in a silver plate, but it was too tempting
M.D.V.
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My you sound happy!
The theme song from "M*A*S*H" seems to be the solution you may not even realize you are looking for.
"Suicide is painless. It brings on many changes . . . "
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Suicide ? You wish, the world is so down under that I cannot even afford a rope.
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If your mouse is corded, you can use that! 
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I think we're long past the point where anything Yahoo-related had any relevance to anyone but Yahoo employees, its board of directors, and its shareholders.
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I don't think it's had much relevance for its shareholders for quite some time; I don't believe Yahoo shares have existed since 31 Oct 2016.
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I miss usenet...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Loved downloading songs(and other media) from USENET with the funky RAR encoder, where if you missed like #23 out of 55 total, you were hosed!
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Message Removed
modified 12-Oct-20 19:52pm.
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Although many of us are already aware of it...
I recommend you to read the book "Code Zero" by Marc Elsberg. (I just read it this weekend)
I found the thriller story good and even for the non techies might be interesting. As it explains a lot of the virtual world giants, data / privacy and so on, but without getting to too technical, so they can follow it up.
M.D.V. 
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modified 12-Oct-20 13:34pm.
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Nelek wrote: I just read it this weekend)
On Amazon it does claim to be "unputdownable." 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
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I suppose the one who wrote that doesn't have tiny kids 
But in my case it kind of was it... I started it on Friday noon and finished by Sunday night.
M.D.V.
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ZurdoDev wrote: On Amazon it does claim to be "unputdownable."
Old Tim Vine joke: "I was reading a book about glue. Once I'd picked it up, I couldn't put it down again"
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ZurdoDev wrote: On Amazon it does claim to be "unputdownable."
I'm betting gravity would beg to differ.
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dandy72 wrote: I'm betting gravity would beg to differ.
Posh! Theories can't beg.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
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