"chris" wrote in message



Stewart, They obviously haven't got a big enough gallery to play to
on RAO since all most everyone else has left there.

Right, Middius and his clique have implemented their version of the Cedar
fire, and virtually all intelligent life has fled. Take out the flames and
off-topic political discussions (which generally quickly degenerate into
flames in the hands of the usual list of suspects) and you've got one heck
of a dead newsgroup. Not surprising given how many sockpuppets and anonymous
aliases it took for them to do the deed.

ego deflation is such a sad thing

Right. The good news is that when they venture into newsgroups where
intelligent life still exists, they get their heads handed back to them on
garbage can lids.