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> >Actually, Ken, I am amazed that you are still on here and responded right away to my new post...because it has been almost twenty years since anybody posted on this thread!!!
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> I'm subscribed to 17 newsgroups, including this one. Well over half of
> them, including this one, are almost completely inactive, and several
> others are almost completely inactive. There's no downside to keeping
> their subscriptions active, so I do, just in case something of
> interest turns up.
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> How quickly I respond to a post in any newsgroup depends on when it
> was posted and when I check the newsgroups. If it turns out to be
> right away, it's just a coincidence.



Newsgroups like this are pretty much passe aren't they? I never understood them in the first place. You were supposed to get a special newsgroup reader or something to look at them properly...?