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Posted by Balanced View on June 18, 2008, 9:57 pm
Please log in for more thread options Eeyore wrote:
> Balanced View wrote:
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>> Eeyore wrote:
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>>> Balanced View wrote:
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>>>> The newsgroups are dying anyway, groups I've read since the mid 90's are
>>>> down to a few hardcore old timers or
>>>> Right and Left loonies. Last one out please turn out the lights........
>>>>
>>> I disagree.
>>>
>>> I reckon it's as healthy as ever and what with this NY Attorney General's
attempts to
>>> limit free speech, and some publicity of same, it may gain a new rush of
popularity.
>>>
>>> I have to say, I've learnt as much from usenet as the entire www.
>>>
>> The stats don't bear you out , this group currently only has 943
>> subscribers and 516 messages per month,
>> it was in the thousands when I first found this place before the
>> millenium. One of my favorite groups since
>> 1997 now is down to 541 members, down from over 12,000 in 1999, now
>> sometimes over there they'll be no
>> new posts for three or four days in a row.
>>
>> It's sad, I've always enjoyed Usenet, I've even traveled half way round
>> the world to visit people I'd never physically
>> met, but had yacked back and forth with for five years.
>>
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> Sorry you feel that way.
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> I feel a new surge of Usenetters coming this way.
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> Graham
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I hope so too, but the states don't bear indicate that by a long shot.
What I could see happening is Usenet
becomes a sort of "Underground Movement" of the internet, but it doesn't
have the bells and whistles
the younger generation is looking for.
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