Is anybody there?

Bill R

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Aug 5, 2011, 9:20:47 AM8/5/11

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Bill

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Aug 5, 2011, 3:42:23 PM8/5/11

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Maybe,
depends why you're asking :-)

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Bill

Ian M

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Aug 6, 2011, 4:44:09 PM8/6/11

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Yes, but only just.

Looks like everyone's gone to the web

Ian
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Ball-Dee

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Aug 12, 2011, 5:56:23 AM8/12/11

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It's been awfully quiet here for a long time - I think I can hear the
distant rumble of something coming along the tunnel. Maybe it's the strat...

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Bill R

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Aug 12, 2011, 6:18:49 AM8/12/11

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It seems to be a strange phenomenon (and not for the first time) of this
Newsgroup. Don't hear anything for months so I post a "is anybody there"
message and then we all start talking about how there's been no-one on the
Newsgroup for months.

Is there really nothing better to talk about?

Regards.

Bill

Jeff

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Aug 12, 2011, 7:27:52 AM8/12/11

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Who said that?

Wish I'd brought my torch.

J

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krak

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Aug 12, 2011, 7:37:41 AM8/12/11

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I think that newsgroups are a dying beast. Several others that I look
at have gone from 50 postings a day to 3 a month or less. Most people
that I mention this to have no idea what newsgroups are. They know
about Facebook…

Lordgnome

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Aug 12, 2011, 7:45:29 AM8/12/11

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"krak" <kr...@mail.ru> wrote in message
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> Facebook.

There are quite a few usenet groups which I frequent which are very busy.
I think the demise of this one is down to the fact that many of us who used
to be active are now at the age where we don't get about so much!
Another factor is that it is of help if you can post a few pictures, which
is where the forums come into their own. I am staggered by the quality of
some of the shots on 28days later, for example.
Another factor might be that most of the really interesting stuff which came
to light in the 80's is now either documented or smashed up. I was reading
Nick Catford's book on bunkers and sad to say I noted that so many
interesting places have simply been demolished, etc.

Les.

Fred

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Aug 13, 2011, 5:34:36 AM8/13/11

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...and a number of lurkers like me, hanging around in the vain hope
that something interesting might turn up one day.

No matter, it only takes a few seconds to check.

Mike P the 1st

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Aug 13, 2011, 6:19:11 AM8/13/11

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On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:56:23 +0100, "Ball-Dee"
<ball.dee...@ntlworld.com> gently dipped his quill in the best
Quink that money could buy:

Here :-)

Mike P the 1st

Neill

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Aug 25, 2011, 6:07:19 PM8/25/11

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I would have been here but I've been poking around in some interesting
foreign bunkers for the last few weeks

Neill

krak

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Aug 26, 2011, 5:13:18 PM8/26/11

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How foreign? Do tell...

Ball-Dee

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Aug 26, 2011, 5:23:52 PM8/26/11

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"Neill" <wormw...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I would have been here but I've been poking around in some interesting
> foreign bunkers for the last few weeks
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> Neill
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Now that sounds interesting ...

Ala

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Sep 1, 2011, 9:56:04 PM9/1/11

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"Bill R" <bi...@compsols.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote in message

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how about gas
http://www.kyivpost.com/news/business/bus_general/detail/111379/
Boiko: Ukraine to reduce purchase of Russian gas to 12 billion cubic meters
Aug 22 at 19:33 | Interfax-Ukraine
Over the next five years, Ukraine will manage to produce about 27 billion
cubic meters of natural gas per year and purchase about 12 billion cubic
meters of gas from Russia, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy
Boiko has said.

"We're planning to increase our own production from 20 billion [cubic
meters] to 27 billion cubic meters in five years, and taking into account a
program for energy saving and the replacement of gas with coal, we are
planning to buy 12 billion cubic meters of Russian gas in five years," he
told Channel 5 on Monday.

Boiko said he was confident that in 2012, the country would manage to reduce
natural gas consumption by 10 billion cubic meters.

Ala

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Sep 1, 2011, 9:57:23 PM9/1/11

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"Jeff" <jeff...@aol.com> wrote in message
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be careful not to light it at the Black Sea
http://ukrainianjournal.com/index.php?w=article&id=13041
Nine companies submit bids for Black Sea LNG gas terminal study
Journal Staff Report

KIEV, Aug. 22 - Nine companies submitted bids for conducting a feasibility
study for a planned liquefied natural gas terminal on Ukraine's Black Sea
coast, the State Investment and National Projects Management Agency said
Monday.

The companies include Zagope Construcoes e Engenharia S.A. of Portugal,
Ramboll Oil and Gas of Denmark, Socoin of Spain, Ambetech Engineering of the
U.S., Sener of Spain, Sweco Industry of Finland, Technique Italy, Foster
Wheeler Iberia of Spain and Pricewaterhousecoopers.

Fred

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Sep 7, 2011, 1:53:37 PM9/7/11

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On Aug 5, 2:20 pm, "Bill R" <b...@compsols.wanadoo.co.uk> wrote:
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...just back from checking the Aberystwyth surface water drainage
scheme.

Fred.