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Graham Balin wrote: > Trefor Roscoe wrote: >> Fel free to carry on >> >> GP-UK is dying slowly and anything that can keep it going is fine by me. >> >> >> > So why is that then? Is it the Drs.net forum? > If so, why is it that people should prefer posting on a forum that is > so sloooow compared to opening emails in an email client program? Is > there something I'm missing here? There is a backlash against openness, driven by the spreading of openness, the growth of collaborative or social software such as Facebook which tends to close access into a group, NSA, MI5 and the ""war" "against" "terror""'s desire to channel communications through chokepoints andfilters and venture capital's tendency to seek intermediation for profit. The generation of new bubbles - more foam[1] - in the Internet is irritating, although not wholly without merit in having a quiet conversation with handy threading and minutes. [1] if anyone hadn't noticed the domain is defoam.net - no coincidence. -- A