"Lilone" <lilone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:8449749kvo3krfj1kdr1llur3kebuc47s5@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 00:42:54 -0400, "Jack Cassidy"
> <Jacapat2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>
>><eddiecoats@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>news:dd068461-319b-4ea9-9a3b-c707bdb316d6@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>I cannot express how disappointed I am in this website.
>>
>>This is not a website, This is a newsgroup on usenet.
>>
>>>I learned
>>> about it reading Elizabeth Edward's book and was anticipating all
>>> sorts of sup****t and exchange of ways to cope. Not only did I
>>> experience going through six months of chemotherapy in the hospital
>>> for Leukemia, just to have to deal with my only daughter overdosing on
>>> prescription medicines another six months later.
>>> I don't think there was anyone more qualified to enroll on this
>>> website than myself.
>>
>>One does not enroll in a newsgroup, You simply come here and post a
>>message
>>and sometimes someone will respond, sometimes not. This newsgroup used
to
>>be
>>much more active, Most of the posters from several years ago have moved
>>on.
>>I really don't know why more new people have not filled the spaces they
>>left. Maybe it is because there are so many more grief sites then there
>>used
>>to be. Maybe it is because many ISP's have dropped newsgroups.
>
> Newsgroups are dying all over. Partly, because ISM's are dropping
> them.
>
> Its the age of colorful forums and blogs now. People want to see
> pictures like a TV and usenet is just a radio, if you get my drift.
Yep, I get your drift, I am an old fart and way behind the learning curve.
;c)
I really do like newsgroups better, Especially the.alt hierarchy It's like
a
worldwide meeting place, Somewhere where you can go and not have to wait
for
them to come to you.
Jack Cassidy
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