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Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past

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On 2014-02-24, Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> wrote:
> Your mileage may vary, of course.  I can only judge what I see, and 
> although I do have quite a list of newsgroups that I'm subscribed to - 
> all of which are related to GNU/Linux or UNIX in general, except for 
> this one here - it is still only a small subset of the enormous amount 
> of newsgroups in existence, especially given the very narrow scope of 
> the groups I chose to subscribe to.  So your perspective may be 
> different from mine. ;-)
>

Good post, I enjoyed it.  I'm not sure I'm worried.  Too late to pen out
a long response, but some anecdotal evidence include the interest that
drummed up in this site (we've seen something like 50 different users in
the past two weeks), the fact new hierarchies like my dictator.* are
being created and managed, and the life in some individual newsgroups.
Also, there's apparently a hell of a lot of life in
Usenet-for-downloading-binaries.  I just discovered sickbeard and it's
apparently got a huge following; it came preinstalled on my FreeNAS.
That's growth.

Usenet hit a peak that was unsustainable, as groups filled with casual
users who had no where else to go.  The only ones left are the ones who
really loved the format and the nuances of Usenet.  I think the
24K+groups will slim down to a handful, but the protocol and the
philosophy will remain - if only because not everyone honors cancels :)

Either way, I'll enjoy it while it lasts, and if it ever "dies" I'll
just open up a BBS.  Y'all can telnet in ...

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Ghost of Usenet Postings Past RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-23 22:55 +0000
  Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past bad sector <forgetski@postit_INVALID_.gov> - 2014-02-23 18:19 -0500
    Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-02-24 08:33 +0100
      Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-24 23:29 +0000
        Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-25 10:27 +0000
          Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-02-25 16:05 +0100
            Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-25 15:22 +0000
            Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Conceited Jerk <cj.speakeasy@AAARGHgmail.com> - 2014-02-25 15:42 -0600
      Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-26 13:34 -0500
    Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Chris J Dixon <chris@cdixon.me.uk> - 2014-02-24 07:39 +0000
      Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-02-24 03:52 +0000
        Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-24 23:30 +0000
          Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2014-02-25 16:06 +0100
    Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-26 13:27 -0500
  Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-02-25 10:54 -0300
    Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2014-02-25 13:32 -0600
      Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2014-02-26 11:12 -0300
      Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-26 13:48 -0500
  Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-02-25 06:03 -0800
  Re: Ghost of Usenet Postings Past Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-02-26 13:22 -0500

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