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["Anthony J. Albert" <albert AT polaris.umpi.maine.edu>]

On 23 Aug 2004 at 17:28, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
>Ron Clarke wrote:
>>
>> I haven't been getting any BL mail for a couple of days, 
>
>I've noticed that the number of messages decreases on the 
>weekend.  There is also a general drop-off during the summer 
>holidays (in the northern hemisphere).  However, I must admit
>that the current lull is worse than usual.
>
>Perhaps the move to BL3 (and the focus on hardware from the
>mid-1990s) has turned off subscribers?  I saw the same thing 
>happen in the Survivor PC discussion group -- fewer and fewer 
>subscribers were interested in old hardware.

Yeah, I've noticed it, too, but I expect that things may pick up a 
little during the northern hemisphere winter.

On the other hand, with the ready availability of cheap Pentium and 
Pentium-II class hardware, at least here in the USA, there's becoming 
less and less of an incentive to spend the effort involved in tinkering 
with older systems.

On yet another hand, I still have a 486SX with BL1, that's working just 
fine... keep meaning to try BL3, but don't seem to find the time to get 
to it.

Anthony Albert
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Anthony J. Albert                     albert AT umpi.maine.edu
Systems and Software Support Specialist          Postmaster
Computer Services - University of Maine, Presque Isle
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