[Vision2020] V2020 Success

[lrr]

I'm not sure about the others, but I never assumed you were wanting to move. 
You gave information and asked questions, and information-sharing was the
spirit with which I replied. :)

Lanna

Quoting Tbertruss at aol.com:

>
> LRosgen et. al.
>
> I was not in any way advocating abandoning V2020, but only pointing out that
> if First Step decided it best to stop sponsoring V2020, there are other
> alternatives to continue a community list serve that are "free."  I have
> belonged to
> many "free" list serves, so V2020, for moi, is just an extension of this
> Internet world of online communication.
>
> I love usenet (once under the DejaNews banner but now taken over by Google)
> for the discussion groups that are ongoing for an endless number of subjects.
> Anyone can create their own discussion group for a new subject.  And what is
> interesting is that there is a huge amount of info available on usenet that
> is
> not accessed via a Google Internet search.  You must do a "groups" search,
> separate from Google's Internet search.  How this works I am not sure, but
> usenet
> is a separate part of the Internet, in some sense.  Usenet goes way back to
> the origins of the Internet, I think.
>
> I may become a First Step customer if they can provide high speed wireless
> Internet beamed to my location in rural Latah County.  Apparently they are
> working on this.
>
> Ted Moffett
>