This place as almost all places on the Usenet deteriorated to the point of not worth participating.
I have been on usenet since close to the beginning and you could have said this anytime.
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I've deep lurked in the past two weeks or so, to see if I'm right, and well, I am.
It's always easy to find evidence for our worst fears. Part of maturity is to push beyond and have the inner stuff to still see good and still be good.
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I want to thank you all for all the tools I had gotten here. My diet is going exceptionally well now, and my life commitment to it is unquestionable.
For such a bad place you seemed to have a got a lot from it.