Re: OT: Gotta move...


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Nick Theodorakis wrote:

Mike Beede wrote:
[...]


I've been on USENET for twenty years now and it seems remarkably
unchanged to me.

Unchanged? Not even by the arrival and (mostly) departure of "endless
September?"

Most recently affected by the Great Google Group invasion. But usenet
tends to absorb and convert the barbarians.

Yeah, but each new invasion is ever smaller. Google at worst replaces the
departed AOL posters, and most Google Group users seem to think the groups
live on and are controlled by Google, same as the blog web sites that are
their primary experience in interactive words. Fewer and fewer ISPs every
year offer Usenet, or at least publicize that they do. The techie mission of
Usenet has largely been replaced by web pages. When is the last time any of
you used a command line FTP get to pull a utility or driver from a mirror
site? How many of you in the non-.edu world still have a newsfeed on your
work account?

We've had this discussion on here several times before. Usenet is fading
away, and new people coming in (other than the porno freaks) are largely
unaware and indifferent to the somewhat quaint experience of the net. Don't
believe me- subscribe to a couple dozen groups at random, and see how many
are pure spam or abandoned. Along with the GUI world, spam is the other big
thing that gets people to abandon Usenet- the Signal to Noise ratio just
gets so ridiculous that it isn't worth it, when needed data is painlessly
available elsewhere. And of course our friend ebay, and the various ---'s
list freebie web sites and moderated Yahoo lists, have basically killed the
forsale groups.

I was here (not on RACS, but in the comp.* groups )20 years ago too, so I
remember how it was. You had to be a bit of a geek back then to play, and
the content reflected that. We are now in the end of the CB era of usenet. I
hope it survives in some useful and entertaining form, once all the amatuers
forget about it.

aem sends...

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