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OT Andrew Cuomo
Well, Andrew Cuomo will be the next governor of New York state. He was
probably the best choice but I couldn't bring myself to vote for him. I still blame him for the death of our newsgroups. Sure r.t.c has managed to stay busy, but that is a rarity now. I'm sure we lost hundreds (at least) of participants and occasional readers here too. If you are not familiar with this, here's a 2 year old + story about what happened: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9964895-38.html Read the first couple of comments too. Good for a small chuckle. Steve (in NY... way upstate, not the city) |
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OT Andrew Cuomo
On 11/3/2010 11:56 PM, Steve wrote:
Well, Andrew Cuomo will be the next governor of New York state. He was probably the best choice but I couldn't bring myself to vote for him. I still blame him for the death of our newsgroups. Sure r.t.c has managed to stay busy, but that is a rarity now. I'm sure we lost hundreds (at least) of participants and occasional readers here too. If you are not familiar with this, here's a 2 year old + story about what happened: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9964895-38.html Read the first couple of comments too. Good for a small chuckle. Steve (in NY... way upstate, not the city) Yes, I refused to vote for him for a long time, I finally gave in when I saw what losers the others were (but I probably should have picked the lesser of the other evils). While his actions did not immediately effect RTC, the resulting lack of interest in newsgroups (once the most popular alt. groups were removed) led to Verizon and other ISP's eventually dropping their newsgroup service "due to lack of interest". All because some spammers posted inappropriate stuff on an off-topic newsgroup and no one in the AG's office bothered to understand how things actually worked. The winners were the ISP's who wanted to get rid of newsgroups to cut their costs and were given an excuse to do so. Bill |
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OT Andrew Cuomo
On 11/3/2010 11:56 PM, Steve wrote:
Well, Andrew Cuomo will be the next governor of New York state. He was probably the best choice but I couldn't bring myself to vote for him. I still blame him for the death of our newsgroups. Sure r.t.c has managed to stay busy, but that is a rarity now. I'm sure we lost hundreds (at least) of participants and occasional readers here too. If you are not familiar with this, here's a 2 year old + story about what happened: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9964895-38.html Read the first couple of comments too. Good for a small chuckle. Steve (in NY... way upstate, not the city) While I was willing to give Andrew a chance it didn't take too long before he made my mind up for me. As soon as He announced his run his first order of business was to go see and coddle Al Sharpton the Thug. He didn't do a thing to Rangel or the other cheats either. So there you have it, heez a chip off the ole block. Too bad Carl was too wacky. Expect more new taxes on clothing, Fuel & Yes Travel. I wonder if he will call up his fathers Tax Police who follow people around to see if they're going shopping in tax free states & then photographing their Lic Plate. Maybe there will be one on the next cruise you're on, they'll call him a Security Marshall but instead of a Gun He'll have a camera & calculator on him. |
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OT Andrew Cuomo
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wrote: Well, Andrew Cuomo will be the next governor of New York state. He was probably the best choice but I couldn't bring myself to vote for him. I still blame him for the death of our newsgroups. Sure r.t.c has managed to stay busy, but that is a rarity now. I'm sure we lost hundreds (at least) of participants and occasional readers here too. ISP's began dropping Usenet before Cuomo's campaign against Usenet. My newsgroup and email ISP dropped it a year or so before Cuomo began asking ISP's to drop Usenet and AOL dropped it a couple of years before that. Many usenet users were migrating to web forums and other groups that had some form of moderation as many got tired of the trolls and flame wars. Cuomo definitely hastened the decline along though giving cover to the major cable ISP's to drop newsgroups with his bogus claims about Usenet. If I lived in New York state I would not have voted for him. -- Charles |
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Worse - Sandra Lee Will Now Be Firstish Lady
One of the most irritating hosts on Food Network (granted, there's
some hefty competition there) - Sandra Lee (Almost Homemade) is his longtime partner. |
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