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CL9:             SWAP OR DIE..
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CL4:           By Darkhawk/IRIS

CL0:At  last  it has come to an end, and I
will  be  the  one finally stating it,
although  I do not like it much.  This
is  a  short  point, an obvious point,
and not one that needs a huge article:

CL1:Swapping is dead.

CL0:There,  might  we  not feel better now
that  every pretense has been dropped?
Might   we  not  dedicate  our  energy
towards   something   different   now,
something with more chances of staying
alive?   I  know  that  I have dropped
swapping  indirectly  a year or so ago
already,  but back then I did not want
to  declare  swapping  dead;  it might
still survive me, and there were still
around   5-10   swappers   left.   Now
however,  I  think  it  is fair to say
that  there are no real swappers left.
There might be a few, who'd still like
to  swap,  but  they  have  not  found
eachother,  and  even they delay for a
long time.  No, this was it, after all
these years, swapping is finally dead,
and  it  won't come back, since no-one
is  willing  to  do  much  for it, and
times  have  moved  on beyond it years
ago.   This is sad, but that is how it
is;  after  having  fought the end for
many  years, now is the time to accept
defeat,   we  must  live  without  the
notion of swapping.

CL1:There  won't be any best swapper chart
in  the  EC  anymore,  it  was already
becoming  a  real  farce, even more so
than  the  other  charts  we  feature.
Swapping  died  some  years  ago, when
most  of the big diskmags finally went
away, never to come back.  After that,
we   have   lived   in  some  kind  of
mass-denial and coma, but it was clear
where  it  would  go, unless something
new  and unexpected happened.  We have
endured,  but now we endure no longer.
It  is  over,  and  I don't even think
there is anybody left to disagree.

CL0:Naturally, this means that there won't
be  any  swappers corner in the future
either.   In any case, let's look back
with a nostalgic twinge, but let's not
deceive  ourselves  anymore:  Swapping
is dead.





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