It seems like COLA is dying.  I remember 6 months ago when COLA was
teaming with posts.  Now it is slowly dying as there are less and less
posters and even less topics being posted.

This vibrant community is slowly withering on the vine.  I enjoyed reading
the posts before I left to wash floors at Walmart at night, but lately
the posts are not coming in that frequently.  What gives?  Is Linux
advocacy declining?  Heck, maybe the computer industry is dying.  I have
an MCSE and an expired MCSD and I work as a night janitor at Walmart for
10 bucks an hour.  

I'm lonely now that COLA is dying.  I work nights so I rarely meet
people.  COLA was always fun to hang around in and shoot the breeze.  Ah
well, it was fun while it lasted.

Mike Cox wrote:

> It seems like COLA is dying.  I remember 6 months ago when COLA was
> teaming with posts.  Now it is slowly dying as there are less and less
> posters and even less topics being posted.
> 
> This vibrant community is slowly withering on the vine.  I enjoyed reading
> the posts before I left to wash floors at Walmart at night, but lately
> the posts are not coming in that frequently.  What gives?  Is Linux
> advocacy declining?  Heck, maybe the computer industry is dying.  I have
> an MCSE and an expired MCSD and I work as a night janitor at Walmart for
> 10 bucks an hour.
> 
> I'm lonely now that COLA is dying.  I work nights so I rarely meet
> people.  COLA was always fun to hang around in and shoot the breeze.  Ah
> well, it was fun while it lasted.

Actually, create and post a great open source application. Make sure your
email and IM name is used. You'll have plenty of company.

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> Mike Cox wrote:
>
>> It seems like COLA is dying.  I remember 6 months ago when COLA was
>> teaming with posts.  Now it is slowly dying as there are less and less
>> posters and even less topics being posted.
>> 
>> This vibrant community is slowly withering on the vine.  I enjoyed reading
>> the posts before I left to wash floors at Walmart at night, but lately
>> the posts are not coming in that frequently.  What gives?  Is Linux
>> advocacy declining?  Heck, maybe the computer industry is dying.  I have
>> an MCSE and an expired MCSD and I work as a night janitor at Walmart for
>> 10 bucks an hour.
>> 
>> I'm lonely now that COLA is dying.  I work nights so I rarely meet
>> people.  COLA was always fun to hang around in and shoot the breeze.  Ah
>> well, it was fun while it lasted.
>
> Actually, create and post a great open source application. Make sure your
> email and IM name is used. You'll have plenty of company.

Actually, Mr. Cox thinks COLA is dying because most people, such as myself,
have plonked him.  Poor bastard's afraid to be left sitting in the corner
drinking by himself.

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mlw scribbled these words at Saturday 10 April 2004 22:51:

> Mike Cox wrote:
> 
>> It seems like COLA is dying.  I remember 6 months ago when COLA was
>> teaming with posts.  Now it is slowly dying as there are less and less
>> posters and even less topics being posted.

Your observation reflects a certain reality - many of the posters and
postings over the past couple years have been made by non-supporters of
GNU/Linux.  As the ratio of such postings to C.O.L.A. has increased the
level of advocacy has decreased in exponential proportion.  I can recall
when in the late 1990s this newsgroup was one of the most active and useful
sources for exchanging information, ideas, and opinions about GNU/Linux. 
There was those among us who have come to the conclusion that Microsoft has
sponsored the posters of anti-GNU/Linux messages to this newsgroup.  Even
the many other newsgroups under the comp.os.linux.* hierarchy are suffering
a similar fate.  The noise to signal ratio has grown steadily more intense
since early 2000.

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Lin�nut wrote:

> 
>> Mike Cox wrote:
>>
>>> It seems like COLA is dying.  I remember 6 months ago when COLA was
>>> teaming with posts.  Now it is slowly dying as there are less and less
>>> posters and even less topics being posted.
>>> 

> Poor bastard's afraid to be left sitting in the corner
> drinking by himself.

I have to agree with him; even though he's trolling.

But, all those /teaming/ posts were mostly:

(a) Simon COoke
(b) Assorted trolls.

Except for Kadaitcha man, there are no spam level posters in COLA any more.


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John Bailo wrote:

> Lin�nut wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> Mike Cox wrote:
>>>
>>>> It seems like COLA is dying.  I remember 6 months ago when COLA was
>>>> teaming with posts.  Now it is slowly dying as there are less and less
>>>> posters and even less topics being posted.
>>>> 
> 
>> Poor bastard's afraid to be left sitting in the corner
>> drinking by himself.
> 
> I have to agree with him; even though he's trolling.
> 
> But, all those /teaming/ posts were mostly:
> 
> (a) Simon COoke
> (b) Assorted trolls.
> 
> Except for Kadaitcha man, there are no spam level posters in COLA any
> more.
> 

Well, the most acticve spammer in cola is John Bailo 

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On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 20:43:16 -0700, "Mike Cox"
<mikecoxlinux@yahoo.com> wrote:

>It seems like COLA is dying.  I remember 6 months ago when COLA was
>teaming with posts.  Now it is slowly dying as there are less and less
>posters and even less topics being posted.
>
>This vibrant community is slowly withering on the vine.  I enjoyed reading
>the posts before I left to wash floors at Walmart at night, but lately
>the posts are not coming in that frequently.  What gives?  Is Linux
>advocacy declining?  Heck, maybe the computer industry is dying.  I have
>an MCSE and an expired MCSD and I work as a night janitor at Walmart for
>10 bucks an hour.  
>
>I'm lonely now that COLA is dying.  I work nights so I rarely meet
>people.  COLA was always fun to hang around in and shoot the breeze.  Ah
>well, it was fun while it lasted.

Agreed.

I'm getting a lot more work done since c.o.l.a. has become so
incredibly boring.  This is because Linux is boring and those people
who advocate it are by association boring.

freefall wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 20:43:16 -0700, "Mike Cox"
> <mikecoxlinux@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>It seems like COLA is dying.  I remember 6 months ago when COLA was
>>teaming with posts.  Now it is slowly dying as there are less and less
>>posters and even less topics being posted.
>>
>>This vibrant community is slowly withering on the vine.  I enjoyed reading
>>the posts before I left to wash floors at Walmart at night, but lately
>>the posts are not coming in that frequently.  What gives?  Is Linux
>>advocacy declining?  Heck, maybe the computer industry is dying.  I have
>>an MCSE and an expired MCSD and I work as a night janitor at Walmart for
>>10 bucks an hour.
>>
>>I'm lonely now that COLA is dying.  I work nights so I rarely meet
>>people.  COLA was always fun to hang around in and shoot the breeze.  Ah
>>well, it was fun while it lasted.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> I'm getting a lot more work done since c.o.l.a. has become so
> incredibly boring.  This is because Linux is boring and those people
> who advocate it are by association boring.

Go back to work.

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On 2004-04-11, freefall <noone@nowhere.com> blubbered:

> I'm getting a lot more work done since c.o.l.a. has become so
> incredibly boring.  This is because Linux is boring and those people
> who advocate it are by association boring.

And you persist in coming to COLA to be bored.

How sad, and pathetic, to feel compelled to bother with something you
don't like, that you don't use and that bores you to tears.

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Mike Cox wrote:
> It seems like COLA is dying.  I remember 6 months ago when COLA was
> teaming with posts.  Now it is slowly dying as there are less and less
> posters and even less topics being posted.
>
> This vibrant community is slowly withering on the vine.  I enjoyed
> reading the posts before I left to wash floors at Walmart at night,
> but lately the posts are not coming in that frequently.  What gives?
> Is Linux advocacy declining?  Heck, maybe the computer industry is
> dying.  I have an MCSE and an expired MCSD and I work as a night
> janitor at Walmart for 10 bucks an hour.
>
> I'm lonely now that COLA is dying.  I work nights so I rarely meet
> people.  COLA was always fun to hang around in and shoot the breeze.
> Ah well, it was fun while it lasted.

Guffaw!!  You low grade wintrolls are extremely boring.  Sweaty Balmer has
reamed out all of the wintrolls, so you're no longer any fun.  Linux has now
evolved to the point where people are now busy using linux on their own
projects and don't have time to bandy with low IQ wintrolls.