Wasabi <blue.mountains@org.invalid> wrote:
> Jim Breen <jimbreen@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
> Did anyone ever get to meet Cindy?
> Or fly with her?  ^_^
> 

And who can forget Michael Cash and his gaijin trucker posts?