On Sep 18, 1:39*pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> My main conputer failed on August 10 or 11, and
> though I could have downloaded Mozilla or allowed
> Google to rape my other computer, I chose to wait
> for a replacement on eBay. *The first one didn't
> boot using my old disk drive, but the second one
> did, a few minutes ago, so I'm back on-line.
>
> More than a month without Usenet is not so bad.
> It's sort of like not drinking alcohol for a month.
> But it's not in any sense pleasant.

How can we miss you if you don't go away?