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Posted by Balanced View on June 21, 2008, 12:27 pm
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daestrom wrote:
> Balanced View wrote:
>> daestrom wrote:
>>> Balanced View wrote:
>>>> Eeyore wrote:
>>>>> Balanced View wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> Graham
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Off-the-wall question...
>>>
>>> How do you count 'members'? I've seen some that 'nym-shift' all the
>>> time, so they would count as four or five 'members'. I've never
>>> 'signed up' for a group to become a 'member', just started posting.
>>>
>>> A couple of groups have been flooded with OT politco's, 'fringe'
>>> posters and trolls that I hardly ever post there anymore
>>> ('alt.energy.renewable' comes to mind). Yet I do stroll over and
>>> look for any on-topic posts every week, just to see if there is
>>> anything relavent. How could one 'count' these??
>>>
>>> daestrom
>>>
>>
>> I've always used Mozilla based Mail/browsers to read Usenet, to read a
>> group you have to subscribe from the "File" tool bar.
>
> I don't think that 'subscribe' goes back to the server. It's just a
> way of telling your reader to remember that group and automatically
> get the message headers. OE is the same way, but 'subscribing'
> doesn't send anything in particular to the news server.
>
> daestrom
>
I don't claim to know how it works, but as I said both Deja news and
google, who bought their usenet archive, both posted
the number of subscribers to each group
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