On 18 Dec 05  17:10:48, Nancy Backus got back to Maurice Kinal    
   -> Re: bragging rights   
      
    NB> tagged is in the hopes that something might* someday happen again...   
    NB> they really are pretty dead.  As I mentioned to Dan, they really did   
    NB> require a fairly hefty critical mass to function, and ended up losing   
    NB> it.  From what I can see, the genealogy newsgroups, especially most of   
    NB> the specialty ones likewise succumbed, only a few years later... the   
    NB> Internet's less community-oriented makeup made it even harder to keep   
    NB> a critical mass.  I read some of what's left via RIME gating to my main   
    NB> bbs, but I haven't really been able to take part in them.   
      
   The i-net has taken away the personalism that was and is FIDO.     
      
      
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