Re: anti-MI5 filter

Ivan Marsh said the following on 12/17/2007 3:31 PM:
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:59:55 -0500, Randy Webb wrote:

Ivan Marsh said the following on 12/17/2007 1:07 PM:
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:27:41 -0800, VK wrote:

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On Dec 16, 9:10 pm, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedE...@xxxxxx>
wrote:
MI5 does not show up here, using a decent newsreader instead.
I cannot speak for everyone who is using Google Groups: but DejaNews
and much later Google Groups as the take-over is the only real reason
Usenet is still existing and progressing instead of becoming an
enclosed moribund community like FidoNet.
You're an idiot.
Does that mean that you think without web-based interfaces to Usenet
that it wouldn't become a dead animal?

Sure does.

Then we have a difference of opinion.

Without web-based access, the people using it now would be using
web-based forums and not Usenet.

Most web based forums ARE front-ends for usenet.

That is true. And most reluctantly admit to it. Part in due to the reaction of this group when it was portrayed as a "Forum". But, without the web users, what percentage drop in traffic would you see?

I have never used a web based front end.

I have. Very few times though.

...and I'm guessing you have no statistics what so ever on the ratio of
users using web based front-ends or direct clients...

It is exactly and precisely ~71.2342% web users. Statistics are worthless.

Therefore: the statement is idiotic.

No, what is idiotic is obvious.

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