Once upon a time on usenet Fran Farmer wrote:
On 17/11/2015 7:13 AM, Drew Lawson wrote:

I still think it is a medium superior to web forums, and for exactly
the same reasons that Facebook and such don't like it -- no one owns
Usenet.

Agreed. FB is a PITA.

I'm with you there. Signed up years ago at the insistance of overseas family
who prefer to post there than write emails and now only visit once a month
or less for maybe five minutes just to see who's hatched, been matched or
dispatched.
--
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy
little classification in the DSM*."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)
(*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)