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More info?)
Why not? Nobody has started an eMachines news group yet. How does one start a
news group, anyway? ... Ben Myers
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:11:28 GMT, John Hale <nospamjshale3301@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
>I've greatly valued this group through the years, it helped me keep my
>1995 P5-120 going. Undoubtedly it's both Gateway's shrunk market share
>and the many alternatives to usenet that have lessened the traffic in
>this group. For instance, I have found the forums at
>broadbandreports.com more helpful than comp.dcom.xdsl for solving my DSL
>problems. And as others have posted, great guys like Ed Neth and Ben
>Myers have helped solve many of the common problems through the years,
>which reduces the number of new questions being asked. I did finally
>replace my old Gateway this Christmas with a bargain eMachines T2862, so
>your post leads me to ask, can eMachines questions be posted in this
>group since eMachines is now part of Gateway? Thanks,
>
>John Hale
>
>zZero wrote:
>> Musta hit a nerve. I used to come here all the time (as o.phooey, or
>> even before that as someone else). I mostly left years ago when I went
>> AMD. Still had a GW in the house though. I would occassionally show up
>> here because of Ed and Ben and the civil atmosphere that remains in
>> this ng, a rare quality in usenet today (check out 24 hour helpdesk
>> support). Did much work on the GW recently. Reformatted and upgraded to
>> Win98se on the old box. Cheers to all. Julian
>> p.s. might pick up more traffic if the group renames to GW &
>> E-machines.
>>