On Apr 28, 3:15 pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> Sqwertz wrote:
>
> > But that does bring up an interesting subjet: What happens when we
> > - The Diehard Usenet Generation - turn old and maybe sitting at an
> > old folks home ourselves - or someplace slightly nicer? Will we
> > torment Usenet like Sheldon, and bitch about those people that we
> > knew from postings 40 and 50 years ago? I figure by then we'll have
> > dirt on everybody and we'd make for an entertaining group. Err...
> > CABAL.
>
> I'd worry more about the generation which followed us,
> putting up their pictures and life stories and networks
> of friends up on Facebook, etc. All that stuff is going
> to live forever, and many will regret what they've made
> public. Compared to that, RFC is small potatoes.

You have hit the proverbial nail on the head, MT - although the idea
of sitting around grousing about the youngsters while we're
entertaining ourselves in an old folks' home does sound kinda fun,
Cabal or TINMTINC.

Oh, and BTW, Mike, the dues come to me, N., not "Nancy," who posts as
"nancy." Let's just get that straight right now.

N.