Eulogy for a Newsgroup

We live for words
And die for words
Principles we can afford
When all our Brothers turn to Lords
Whose side are you on?

"One By One", Chumbawamba

rasfc is no longer on my side. Hasn't been for years, really, but I've never been good at this whole getting out of a relationship that's going bad thing.

I have been there for nearly a decade. As I just posted:

I have been here since November or December of 1999, which is nearly a third of my life.

I have completed, with the assistance of this place, two novels, a number of short stories, and gotten started on several more.

I met a lover here.

I made many friends here over those years, and remain in touch with quite a few of them.

I have laughed and worked and enjoyed the cleverness and gotten my rasfc pin and my Nancybutton that says "Asked and Answered" in honor of R*ck*ds (which made TNH sit down vehemently, once upon a time) and all these things.


It's hard to face that it's dead.

I don't know what to do. I'm going to have to sit with this one for a good while, I think. But I also think I'm starting to say goodbye.

One by one, the ships go sailing in...
One by one, the ships go sailing out....