Anyone there?
Peter
it's not a fault in my software.
It was a dark and stormy night....
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Peter
Kevin Blackburn
<pe...@double.demon.co.uk.invalid> writes
>Excuse me, Haven't seen any posts in this group for a while - assuming
>it's not a fault in my software.
>
>It was a dark and stormy night....
>
There again, given how quiet the forums on http://www.sfs.org.uk are,
it's not clear bulletin boards do that well either!
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Kevin Blackburn S...@fairbruk.demon.co.uk
The Society for Storytelling website is at http://www.sfs.org.uk
Peter
<S...@fairbruk.demon.co.uk> writes
>In message <fkrjznMB...@godthoms.demon.co.uk>, Peter
><pe...@double.demon.co.uk.invalid> writes
>>Excuse me, Haven't seen any posts in this group for a while - assuming
>>it's not a fault in my software.
>>
>>It was a dark and stormy night....
>>
>It's not your software, storytellers and Usenet don't seem to mix.
>
>There again, given how quiet the forums on http://www.sfs.org.uk are,
>it's not clear bulletin boards do that well either!
Oh. another voice in the darkness. Good to hear you.
Maybe storytelling's all by word of mouth....
Picked up a leaflet from the or a Surrey storytelling group on Monday,
which reminded me. I'd seen RFDs for unused group deletion in
uk.net.news.announce, and been a bit concerned.
Half a century ago, a man called C.P.Snow said there two cultures -
loosely arts and sciences. I reckon that Usenet is more for people who
use computers with a degree of involvement and have a suitable degree of
aptitude and curiosity. Perhaps biased towards sciences rather than
arts. Web-based stuff for people with less of these attributes. That
leaves those who don't used computers at all - a surprising number - who
thereby have time talk to other people and do.
Could even evolve into separate species?
Of course, as Taffy Thomas told the Arts Council, story-telling is a
visual art.
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Peter
Kevin Blackburn
<pe...@double.demon.co.uk.invalid> writes
Mailing lists can do well with tellers as well.
I suspect part of it might be that USENET is a very public forum - both
in terms of things you'd rather wish now you hadn't posted then, and in
that your email address is there for every spammer to harvest.
As to whether this group gets rmgrouped - sadly I don't think it would
be any great loss, given it's not significantly used, and for all I was
here right back at the start in 1998. But if you can use it in a vaguely
on-topic manner, or regain attention and *shock* get some debates going,
more power to you!
Err, and the conflict of interest is of course in my signature :)