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Re: How to Improve this Newsgroup

__/ [Toby Inkster] on Saturday 03 September 2005 08:56 \__

> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> Dylan Parry wrote:
>> 
>>> That would be CIWAH.
>> 
>> That one is pretty dormant if not dead.
> 
> Even Alan J Flavell has recently seen fit to start posting in alt.html.

...quick name lookup... Ah!

http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/aflavell.html

"The first computer I ever encountered, in 1958 while I was still at school,
was WITCH, at what was known in those days as "Wolverhampton Tech"..."

Is he as snappy as Korpela? It doesn't seem so. Taking a quick look at
CIWAH, I can see 10 unread messages, which indicates that it is quite
alive. I don't know why, but the subject lines in that group rarely beg
attention. The search engines newsgroup is currently my favourite.

Roy

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