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Re: Traffic down?

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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...

-- 
Wojtek :-)

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  Re: Traffic down? Lew Bloch <lewisbloch@google.com> - 2011-06-21 12:43 -0700
  Re: Traffic down? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-06-21 16:03 -0400
    Re: Traffic down? Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2011-06-21 16:31 -0700
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    Re: Traffic down? Wojtek <nowhere@a.com> - 2011-06-22 15:32 -0700
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      Re: Traffic down? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-06-23 09:03 -0700
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