Replying to a message of Earl Croasmun to Bob Ackley:

 EC> ~>  SK> What the fug happened to Holysmoke? Did Steve Q.
 EC> shut it ~>  SK> down?

 EC> ~> Boredom, after the new moderator there (it had been
 EC> abandoned and he ~> took it over), instituted a bunch of
 EC> new rules and then threw Ceppa out ~> of it for violating
 EC> them.

 EC> Years ago, Quarrella made Cassell and Seaborn his
 EC> co-moderators.  Of the three of them, Ross was the only one
 EC> actually there in recent years, so he has been the de facto
 EC> moderator since October 2003.  It briefly came back to life
 EC> last year, when Ross lifted old bans and created some new
 EC> rules, but then dropped out of sight again.

AFAIK *everybody* there dropped out of sight.

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