On Monday, June 1, 2015 at 6:57:11 AM UTC+9, Kurt Kraut wrote:
> Haha, I hear ya - I joined this list ca. 1997 and the number of posts has gone down since then. However, in Japan some things never change. Could I get a pack of those thin tissues please...?
Hmm... I was also here about that time, probably '93 or so. I may have been here earlier, perhaps even back in the '80s before I moved to Japan. There was usenet? Something with UUCP? Then maybe deja-vu that became deja-news that became deja that became bankrupt. Then a gap and the google bought the tapes, and I was here through most of it. (Well, not specifically here, but in the newsgroups from time to time.)
Then the google gave me the death penalty, probably around 2005.
About two months ago, I suddenly undied. Maybe the google finally killed the newsgroups, but they'll never kill COBOL! Not sure if I could claim to have been an interesting poster (though I just had an editors' pick and #1 comment of the day on NYT), but I can sure see how nuking the interesting posters could hurt the discussions...
What did I do wrong? Why was I killed? No idea. The google never answered, but in the last few years before I undied, the queries produced a bounce message about my case being under review, or some such BS.
P.S. What reminded me of flij was a slj topic, but I actually undied and reappeared in the newsgroups a few months ago.