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   From: "Dariusz Piatkowski"    
      
   On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:49:39 UTC, Peter Moylan    
    wrote:   
      
   > I recently returned to the OS/2 newsgroups after a long absence. What   
   > I'm now seeing are 32 newsgroups, most of which have no traffic, but   
   > it's hard to see the pattern of which ones are in use. Those articles   
   > that do turn up are frequently cross-posted, presumably because the   
   > poster is not sure where the helpful people might be hanging out.   
   >    
   > Wouldn't it be better to post occasional messages saying "This group is   
   > dead", and re-directing people to comp.os.os2.misc? That, plus   
   > comp.os.os2.announce, should be all that we need.   
   >    
   > I haven't looked at the news.ecomstation.com news server, so I don't   
   > know how active that is these days.   
   >    
      
   Yeah...kind of sad actually...not much traffic...and even for those of us who    
   wish to learn a bit more it's hard to get enough different opinions on how to   
   go   
   at it. Don't get me wrong...the folks that respond are for the most part    
   great...but variety is the 'spice of life'...no? LOL   
      
   Myself, I take a peek at the groups once in a while...and have started to   
   wonder   
   if a dedicated forum would be a better approach? But there have been some   
   forums   
   in the past and those seem to have gone dead...   
      
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