"nck" > wrote in message
...
> Is anybody here from the original newsgroup gang? It seemed so much like
a
> bunch of neighbours sitting around the kitchen table exchanging recipes
and
> gossip.

Many of them left because of the idea of "neighbours sitting around the
kitchen table". It was not and is not an idea universally accepted.

Charlie Liam

> Anybody out there?
> I think I used to use "kangatoo" or some variation on that. Also
> "cassandraK"
>