kickin' it old-school

[the_siobhan]

I gotta say, I haven't enjoyed alt.gothic this much in years.

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[montieth.livejournal.com]

Does anyone post to usenet still?

[flowerysong.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, yes. The current kerfluffle is over (what else?) the recent decision by the c*b*l; some new faces decided to pop in and see how much of a shitstorm they could stir up.

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Damn, it's a shame you can't use icons on alt.gothic, 'cos that's a classic.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

It is never a shame graphics are verboten on usenet.

In days it would be all Lolkittehs.

[ngtmagicks.livejournal.com]

Agreed...
It's been very fun and slightly mind numbing

[elixxir.livejournal.com]

d00d it's been so SO many years since I've peeked at a.g. that I don't even remember how anymore. How sad is that? :p

[the_axel]

Fortunately there's a new & easy way:
http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.gothic/topics

[ladyclayton.livejournal.com]

lmao at your icon!

Totally agree re: a.g. It's made me feel young again... *sigh* ;)

[panic-girl.livejournal.com]

How does one even read it now?

[panic-girl.livejournal.com]

...And what I mean by that is I used to use PINE.
Do you use google groups or something?

[otheronetruegod.livejournal.com]

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.gothic/topics is probably the easiest way. OTOH, you can also use Outlook Express or Windows Mail to do this as well, assuming you know of a news server that you can use.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I feel like I'm missing out, since googlegroups doesn't show anything beyond the 375th message in Everyone's Favorite Thread. *sadface*

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

That's 'cause Google Groups sucks.

Remember how we set up a tunnel for port 25 for email back a while ago? Do that for 119 as well. Then point your favorite newsreader at localhost when you've got putty open to ninehells.

Re: Icon

[panic-girl.livejournal.com]

Hee hee hee (http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.gothic/msg/84f1b1eb839a4c1e).

Lookit all those names I know. *sniff*

Ok, I'll stop commenting now, really.

Re: Icon

[individuation.livejournal.com]

ha! that was my reaction!

[50-ft-queenie.livejournal.com]

Ooh, is there drama on alt.gothic? Damn, I have no news feed at work!

[carriemonster.livejournal.com]

this is the most fun I've had in a while! :)

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Damn it, point me in the direction of the threads.

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[panic-girl.livejournal.com]

The Google Feed (http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.gothic/browse_thread/thread/71d8580af68655dc/b1a3960799aacd62#b1a3960799aacd62)

[the-macross.livejournal.com]

nice hat.

i think in addition to Peter's shirts... I'll hit up OTC and see if I can get a couple dozen of those on the cheap. In yellow, of course.

[ravensee.livejournal.com]

Is it sad that I joined only last year through google feed and I have never actually read any of it until now? HA!

[elusis.livejournal.com]

Wow, Usenet.

Usenet drama.

I'm so tempted to go look but... argh.

[the_axel]

It's good clean fun.
Retardboy [1] came in spewing allegations of cheating at the_siobhan, hellsop, the_macross and rest of us because we'd caught Dallas's C14 bid cheating.

Everyone (and I mean everyone) told him to fuck off. He brought along a couple of sockpuppets who got the same treatment.

It was like a community closing ranks on an enemy outsider. Pretty well unheard of in my experience, and totally worth skimming through (Retardboy gets a bit repetitive after a while).

The subsequent plan for a net.goth get together in Saratoga Springs next year is also promising.

[1] The C13 committee chair. Posting anonymously and claiming to have no vested interest. Naturally we figured out who he really was after a bit of research.

[melete.livejournal.com]

hah!

It has been fun to read from my perch back here. ;)

[unagothae.livejournal.com]

and me with no news server to connect to and no patience for Google!

[unagothae.livejournal.com]

Ok, this was TOTALLY worth suffering Google!

I've got tears streaming from laughing so damn hard.
I MISSED this!

[peculiaire.livejournal.com]

This is so amusing I had to go lurk on alt.gothic again.

I almost forgot how to use slrn.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

It's hilarious, isn't it?

Timing isn't great, as I have No Free Time at present.