Re: Awfully quiet in here...

On 17/11/2024 03:58, Paul S Person wrote:

On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 07:55:39 -0800, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
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Also looking at the amount of "Awfully Quite in here"
it ain't very quiet here and we should find better Subject headers.

 IIRC, that post appeared on a day when I got a total of seven (7) new
messages. So it seemed apropos to me at the time.

At the time I made the OP I had received ~5 messages over a couple of days.  I know Usenet is store-and-forward - I was maintaining a news-server back when we used C-news (I use Leafnode these days) - and it just struck me as odd.
Of course, the next day there were ~70 messages, and traffic went back to its usual level, but the coincidence of the sudden drop and the election in the USA was simply too much not to comment on.  :-)
Cheers,
Gary B-)