Re: RSPW 2024 highlights

1. Google Groups stopped supporting new posts or subscriptions.
 Historical content remained available. This removed several luminaries
from the group, so they couldn't engage in provocative posts which
encouraged more posting, or posting sprees which drove up the post count.
RSPW cannot exist without the likes of Robby or Jason Todd, and everyone
knows it. It also prevented tech-unsavvy posters like the ones attracted
here from John Henry's hate-pages or the occasional Usenet reminiscence
on Reddit or the like from posting here. Considering there was a Vice
documentary which began airing four months after Google pulled the plug,
and it referenced RSPW extensively, we may have missed out on a whole
new crop of newbies. This is not only the most important occurrence of
2024, it's the most important thing that has EVER happened to the group
and that cannot be argued.
 2. Chad posted ]v[etaphoid's real name, driving him away for good.
 Just when ]v[etaphoid thought he had won the decades-long battle against
The Chad, his entire world was upended and he was forced to stop posting
here forever. After the years of ]v[etaphoid ridiculing Chad, Chad's
wives, Chad's kids, and Chad's girlfriends, it's difficult to feel
sympathy for the man, but still, RSPW lost a very funny, if often
mean-spirited contributor when Chad forced him into hiding and slapped
him so hard that he will never, ever return.
 3. Dink created dozens of songs about John Henry and other RSPW guys and
put them on YouTube.
 Even though he's a weird maniac, you have to admit that Dink is
extremely creative and funny. These weren't great, but they were good.
 4. John Henry got a part-time job and interviewed for a management
position.
 Everyone bagged on JH for not wanting to work, but this guy buckled down
and made a serious impact in the corporate world. He may be your boss
someday.
 5. % shut down this group and remained undefeated.
 Not unexpectedly, this Usenet legend closed down this rathole once and
for good. Though many tried, he couldn't be defeated.