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Last gasps of life...
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shannon...@gmail.com
2023-01-18 20:14:16 UTC
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usenet is dead.

Where did I read that? That place must have died, too?

Parting question: Does anyone know of any website like flij in its active days? (Just looked for something like it on Mastodon, but...)

Maybe I'll check back in a few months. Or years? (Unless I'm dead, too.)
Band Beyond Youall
2023-01-19 05:44:52 UTC
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Post by ***@gmail.com
usenet is dead.
Where did I read that? That place must have died, too?
Parting question: Does anyone know of any website like flij in its active
days? (Just looked for something like it on Mastodon, but...)
Maybe I'll check back in a few months. Or years? (Unless I'm dead, too.)
Wait…don’t go!
John W.
2023-01-19 16:36:56 UTC
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Post by ***@gmail.com
usenet is dead.
Where did I read that? That place must have died, too?
Parting question: Does anyone know of any website like flij in its active days? (Just looked for something like it on Mastodon, but...)
Maybe I'll check back in a few months. Or years? (Unless I'm dead, too.)
Google still tells me about these messages, so maybe it's not quite dead. Of course, Google tells me lots of shit.

John W.
Jim Breen
2023-01-20 00:29:52 UTC
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Post by ***@gmail.com
usenet is dead.
Where did I read that? That place must have died, too?
Parting question: Does anyone know of any website like flij in its active days? (Just looked for something like it on Mastodon, but...)
Maybe I'll check back in a few months. Or years? (Unless I'm dead, too.)
I find the "Deep in Japan" Facebook group slightly similar - gaijin sharing stories, etc.

I miss flij, slj, etc. They were a major part of my interaction with Japan and Japanese in that distant time.

Anyone here remember the weekend get-together in Tokyo in early 2001? ISTR we went to Yokohama and Odaiba, and had dinner together in Roppongi.

Jim
Wasabi
2023-01-25 01:14:17 UTC
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On Thursday, 19 January 2023 at 07:14:17 UTC+11, shannon...
Post by ***@gmail.com
usenet is dead.
Where did I read that? That place must have died, too?
Parting question: Does anyone know of any website like flij in
its active days? (Just looked for something like it on Mastodon,
but...)
Post by ***@gmail.com
Maybe I'll check back in a few months. Or years? (Unless I'm
dead, too.)
I find the "Deep in Japan" Facebook group slightly similar -
gaijin sharing stories, etc.
I miss flij, slj, etc. They were a major part of my interaction
with Japan and Japanese in that distant time.
Anyone here remember the weekend get-together in Tokyo in early
2001? ISTR we went to Yokohama and Odaiba, and had dinner together
in Roppongi.
Jim
Did anyone ever get to meet Cindy?
Or fly with her? ^_^
Band Beyond Youall
2023-01-25 03:18:10 UTC
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Post by ***@gmail.com
On Thursday, 19 January 2023 at 07:14:17 UTC+11, shannon...
Post by ***@gmail.com
usenet is dead.
Where did I read that? That place must have died, too?
Parting question: Does anyone know of any website like flij in
its active days? (Just looked for something like it on Mastodon,
but...)
Post by ***@gmail.com
Maybe I'll check back in a few months. Or years? (Unless I'm
dead, too.)
I find the "Deep in Japan" Facebook group slightly similar -
gaijin sharing stories, etc.
I miss flij, slj, etc. They were a major part of my interaction
with Japan and Japanese in that distant time.
Anyone here remember the weekend get-together in Tokyo in early
2001? ISTR we went to Yokohama and Odaiba, and had dinner together
in Roppongi.
Jim
Did anyone ever get to meet Cindy?
Or fly with her? ^_^
And who can forget Michael Cash and his gaijin trucker posts?
John W.
2023-01-25 17:01:06 UTC
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Post by ***@gmail.com
On Thursday, 19 January 2023 at 07:14:17 UTC+11, shannon...
Post by ***@gmail.com
usenet is dead.
Where did I read that? That place must have died, too?
Parting question: Does anyone know of any website like flij in
its active days? (Just looked for something like it on Mastodon,
but...)
Post by ***@gmail.com
Maybe I'll check back in a few months. Or years? (Unless I'm
dead, too.)
I find the "Deep in Japan" Facebook group slightly similar -
gaijin sharing stories, etc.
I miss flij, slj, etc. They were a major part of my interaction
with Japan and Japanese in that distant time.
Anyone here remember the weekend get-together in Tokyo in early
2001? ISTR we went to Yokohama and Odaiba, and had dinner together
in Roppongi.
Jim
Did anyone ever get to meet Cindy?
Or fly with her? ^_^
And who can forget Michael Cash and his gaijin trucker posts?
I wonder what happened to Mike. I assumed he'd be on Instagram, since he was a big photography person, but from time to time I search for him and nothing comes up. When I saw the book (and then show) Tokyo Vice it made me think that maybe Mike's origin story is better in some ways, because it's probably harder to become a trucker in Japan than a journalist.

John W.
Jim Breen
2023-01-25 20:25:00 UTC
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Post by Band Beyond Youall
And who can forget Michael Cash and his gaijin trucker posts?
I wonder what happened to Mike. I assumed he'd be on Instagram, since he was a big photography person, but from time to time I search for him and nothing comes up. When I saw the book (and then show) Tokyo Vice it made me think that maybe Mike's origin story is better in some ways, because it's probably harder to become a trucker in Japan than a journalist.
Quite a few slj and fjliij people moved to a blogging site called The Japan Page. Mike was there for a while. The site stopped working eventually.

Jim
Band Beyond Youall
2023-01-26 04:54:41 UTC
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On Thursday, 19 January 2023 at 07:14:17 UTC+11, shannon...
Post by ***@gmail.com
usenet is dead.
Where did I read that? That place must have died, too?
Parting question: Does anyone know of any website like flij in
its active days? (Just looked for something like it on Mastodon,
but...)
Post by ***@gmail.com
Maybe I'll check back in a few months. Or years? (Unless I'm
dead, too.)
I find the "Deep in Japan" Facebook group slightly similar -
gaijin sharing stories, etc.
I miss flij, slj, etc. They were a major part of my interaction
with Japan and Japanese in that distant time.
Anyone here remember the weekend get-together in Tokyo in early
2001? ISTR we went to Yokohama and Odaiba, and had dinner together
in Roppongi.
Jim
Did anyone ever get to meet Cindy?
Or fly with her? ^_^
And who can forget Michael Cash and his gaijin trucker posts?
I wonder what happened to Mike. I assumed he'd be on Instagram, since he
was a big photography person, but from time to time I search for him and
nothing comes up. When I saw the book (and then show) Tokyo Vice it made
me think that maybe Mike's origin story is better in some ways, because
it's probably harder to become a trucker in Japan than a journalist.
John W.
Sans Mike Cash, there’s always @truckmeimei on Twitter and Instagram, the
accounts of a 20-something female trucker in Japan…
Jim Breen
2023-01-25 20:20:28 UTC
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I miss flij, slj, etc. They were a major part of my interaction
with Japan and Japanese in that distant time.
Did anyone ever get to meet Cindy?
I did. We met at Shinjuku and had lunch together. Early 2001.
Jim
David Meyer
2024-03-08 01:35:09 UTC
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Usenet will live as long as the last person to remember it. ;)

Re-greetings from Takarazuka!

I can't claim to be a flij gawd, but I did follow the group for a while
back in the 1990s.

Giving it a try again now as part of dusting-off Gnus. The groups hosted
by eternal-september.com are a lot less spammy than those hosted by
Google.

Keep on hackin'!

--
David Meyer
Takarazuka, Japan
***@sdf.org
Band Beyond Youall
2024-03-09 12:27:15 UTC
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Post by David Meyer
Usenet will live as long as the last person to remember it. ;)
Re-greetings from Takarazuka!
I can't claim to be a flij gawd, but I did follow the group for a while
back in the 1990s.
Giving it a try again now as part of dusting-off Gnus. The groups hosted
by eternal-september.com are a lot less spammy than those hosted by
Google.
Keep on hackin'!
--
David Meyer
Takarazuka, Japan
Wake up folks! Never mind Google Groups…There’s also the robust and
perennial Berlin-based news.individual.net, for a mere 10 euros a year and
for which you’ll need a newsreader app/program…some also use Eternal
September or something like that…
Band Beyond Youall
2024-03-09 12:30:58 UTC
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Post by David Meyer
Usenet will live as long as the last person to remember it. ;)
Re-greetings from Takarazuka!
I can't claim to be a flij gawd, but I did follow the group for a while
back in the 1990s.
Giving it a try again now as part of dusting-off Gnus. The groups hosted
by eternal-september.com are a lot less spammy than those hosted by
Google.
Keep on hackin'!
--
David Meyer
Takarazuka, Japan
Wake up folks! Never mind Google Groups…There’s also the robust and
perennial Berlin-based news.individual.net, for a mere 10 euros a year and
for which you’ll need a newsreader app/program…some also use Eternal
September or something like that…
Hello David! Glad to see you post, and no offense, but what I’d give to see
Michael Cash make a fj.life.in-japan reappearance…(but any of the old crew
of survivors would be welcome). 😁

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