Gosh, the **** that gets dragged up out of the mind.

I read that CIX was taken over by an ISP called ICUK on Tuesday. Good lord
I hadn't heard of or thought of CIX for a decade. I see there is even an
Android offline reader for the Forums, though of course access is a monthly
sub.

There was a motorcyclicts "bulletin board" CIX:Bikers. A less pikey IRL
meeting group (the monthly sub). Google suggests it still exists. Are there
any "Crossover Members". There have been posters with cix email addys.

Do folks still use the CIX conferences? Perhaps as Usenet has waned it has
picked up (again)...

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Hog

On May 27, 3:35*pm, "Hog." <sm911S...@SPAMhotmail.co.uk> wrote:

> Do folks still use the CIX conferences? *

not for a long time, though I was using (E-Mail Removed) as an email
address from about 1989 (prior to that I was stuck with FidoNet and
JANET) until I became (E-Mail Removed) around 1993 or so. I
didn't get a "real" email address until the Genesis Project's ISP
offering in Belfast around '95.

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d.

On Fri, 27 May 2011 15:35:57 +0100, "Hog."
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Do folks still use the CIX conferences? Perhaps as Usenet has waned it has
>picked up (again)...

I've been on CIX for years. CIX:Bikers was a bit like this place for
quite a while but traffic has dropped off a lot in recent times.
Perhaps it'll pick back up again[1] under the new management which I
see as a positive step.

[1] Although I hope the b4stard who sold me a GS [2] in 2008 with a
gearbox that expired in about 3 hundred miles doesn't come back.

[2] Thought process: I know it makes a funny noise but I know nothing
about GS' and when I queried it he said they all do that. He's a
police officer, he's a member of CIX:bikers which is a small community
and I've been on there for years so he's not going to rip me off is
he. [/tp] He did and I'm less naive now.

Kevin
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Kevin wrote:
> On Fri, 27 May 2011 15:35:57 +0100, "Hog."
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> Do folks still use the CIX conferences? Perhaps as Usenet has waned
>> it has picked up (again)...
>
> I've been on CIX for years. CIX:Bikers was a bit like this place for
> quite a while but traffic has dropped off a lot in recent times.
> Perhaps it'll pick back up again[1] under the new management which I
> see as a positive step.
>
> [1] Although I hope the b4stard who sold me a GS [2] in 2008 with a
> gearbox that expired in about 3 hundred miles doesn't come back.
>
> [2] Thought process: I know it makes a funny noise but I know nothing
> about GS' and when I queried it he said they all do that. He's a
> police officer, he's a member of CIX:bikers which is a small community

You see, the problem was evident from the outset

> and I've been on there for years so he's not going to rip me off is
> he. [/tp] He did and I'm less naive now.

I might run a book on whether Wun is a member of CIX VFR

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Hog