X-Received: by 2002:a0c:b208:0:b0:534:3c7d:97fc with SMTP id x8-20020a0cb208000000b005343c7d97fcmr765786qvd.11.1674174593556; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 16:29:53 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 2002:a05:6808:6247:b0:35a:6f68:5fdd with SMTP id dt7-20020a056808624700b0035a6f685fddmr598917oib.91.1674174593038; Thu, 19 Jan 2023 16:29:53 -0800 (PST) Path: news.ccsf.jp!news.tomockey.net!3.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news.ripco.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feed1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!peer01.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 16:29:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <36947950-f88e-44e7-91b2-6dcec74fff6an@googlegroups.com> Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2001:8003:502a:2500:66b3:71e8:4505:45db; posting-account=tynvFQkAAABx9kR1U8UX9lplWGs4ZpUl NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:8003:502a:2500:66b3:71e8:4505:45db References: <36947950-f88e-44e7-91b2-6dcec74fff6an@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Last gasps of life... From: Jim Breen Injection-Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:29:53 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Received-Bytes: 1909 Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:170863 On Thursday, 19 January 2023 at 07:14:17 UTC+11, shannon...@gmail.com wrote: > 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