>And here I thought the recent Deafening Silence on RAAC was because my
>usenet server was flakey... Truthfully, Usenet is a slowly dieing
>realm on the Net thanks to the sheer number of rapidly insreacing
>chuckleheads. I'm not particularly surprised that a lot of the old
>haunts have begun to break down and drift apart.

Yeah, the signal to noise ratio in certain areas of USENet is increasing in noise's favor. There are still a few places where the signal is rather high (rec.games.video.classic is one of them). It will be a sad day once USENet is taken over by complete peckerheads.

Reverend Hammer