Chris,

I think you are trying to dethrone me.

Mick

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On 17 Aug 2006 09:24:05 -0700 in
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wrote:
Believe what you like. I will always resist muggings on this or any
forum. It is hard to TOS a hit and run flamer but easy to TOS a
regular. On some forums viewers run 200 views to one poster or more.
Who knows why they only lurk, but, they are there. IMHO one mugging can
move hundreds to abandon this forum. Besides, I CANNOT stand idly by
and watch a hit without defending the hitee. Not in me. If this forum
finds Mr. Fournier's antics acceptable I will move on, no big thing.
The web is full of forums, and asyou say everything is now known about
orchids, no questions left, just a place to bicker.

Bah, get over yourself. If it weren't for the occasional well
crafted flame, I'd have tossed USENET years ago.

I attribute the lower posting rates to USENET due to
1) The marginalization of USENET by ISPs. It doesn't make sense
to carry net news when it just increases your costs and your
odds of being sued by RIAA or MPAA.
2) The September that finally ended. AOL and its ilk caused a lot
of folks to abandon USENET, and replaced them with thin skinned
whiners.
3) The Trotskyesk reinvention of USENET as blogs and web forums. Why
accept a flame archived for all to see when you can just censor it
yourself? Need to astroturf a bit? Do it without publicly visible
logs.
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
1994 243 219 195 206 222 192 332
1995 350 205 265 314 359 362 337 371 426 348 313 511
1996 464 419 429 506 472 369 422 441 463 380 452 465
1997 502 512 508 470 527 446 452 256 380 427 423 475
1998 527 449 510 460 588 674 568 682 576 746 961 939
1999 997 1053 957 1135 1068 815 1036 1107 1366 991 933 641

2000 1026 785 941 1156 790 764 1007 1014 869 1182 884 860

2001 1238 1174 1123 799 822 897 1005 1070 896 1282 956 1044

2002 909 808 972 845 725 537 541 498 710 556 744 798

You know that correlates quite well with the post 9/11 layoffs
and the takeoff of blogs and most ISPs giving up on providing USENET
themselves.

2003 784 807 605 651 612 658 813 783 850 529 757 627
2004 908 758 708 719 517 525 575 567 601 548 723 619
2005 543 443 607 480 450 334 426 477 363 448 493 396
2006 372 298 444 492 417 441 313 180

And let's be honest, nearly the entire representation of folks with
sufficient clue to track down the TOS of the poster's ISP and the poster's
news service can be found as regular posters to
news.admin.net-abuse.usenet.

Plus, Mick isn't as big of an asshole as I am.
--
Chris Dukes
"The key to effective management is properly timed hovering."