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On 06/22/2011 03:32 PM, Wojtek wrote:
> Peter Duniho wrote :
>> On 6/21/11 11:56 AM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
>>> I'm recently back to clj*.
>>> I took several months break from it.
>>> The traffic seems down.
>>> Is this a summertime lull?
>>
>> As others have noted, Usenet in general is suffering a decline.
>>
>> This has been especially true since about a year ago, when Microsoft
>> decided to abandon them in favor of the MSDN forums, and their close
>> relationship with the Stack Overflow web site. While Java is not a
>> technology Microsoft cares much about, since Stack Overflow does in
>> fact carry a fair amount of Java-related traffic, their promotion of
>> that web site has the side-effect of also shifting traffic from this
>> newsgroup to there.
>>
>> Traffic has been declining even before that, so one can't blame the
>> entire phenomenon on Microsoft, but their policies certainly had a
>> hand in accelerating the process over the last year or so.
>>
>> I haven't looked to see if there's been a similar decline across other
>> non-tech newsgroups. It's entirely possible that similar factors are
>> causing a decline across the board.
>>
>> Pete
>
> I know of at least two ISPs which are not carrying any newsgroups at all
> anymore, they have discontinued NNTP.
>
> So now I am using a newsgroup service which I must pay for. Some people
> might not want to pay...
>

I've had to pay for several years now.  My ISP used to provide it free 
but turns out, only me and one other guys used it.  He's a small town 
operation though.

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Knute Johnson
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