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   Hello Rug Rat!   
      
   ** On Saturday 10.01.26 - 12:18, Rug Rat wrote to Mike Powell:   
      
    RR> On Sat 10-Jan-2026  9:55a, Mike Powell@1:2320/105.0 said to Rug Rat:   
      
    MP>> To be fair, the subject matter is supposed to be a little   
    MP>> different. This   
      
    RR> Understand vis - visa the subject matter.  The main thing   
    RR> I like about this ECHO is as mentioned above, the topics   
    RR> usually start out with an actual objective news article,   
    RR> if people want to follow up with a subjective response   
    RR> they can.  So far it seems to keep things focused.   
      
   This echo "works" encouraging conversion because there is a     
   good "seed" from some actual news story.  But primarily because     
   the moderator does a little work to plant something that might     
   be of interest to talk about.   
      
   The echoname CONSPRCY here doesn't really mean much.   It could     
   just as well be AAABBBCCC.   ;) We're not really reading     
   conspiracies.   The key is there a "seed".   
      
      
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