Re: uk.r Stuffing!

Eric <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Strange how Google Groups users always seem to assume that
they are the norm and that the rest of us are a little odd.



If you only ever came to uk.railway via Google Groups, you probably
wouldn't even know what Usenet is. To someone who is used to Google
Groups, Yahoo! Groups and web-based discussion forums, Usenet
newsgroups must seem particularly odd.

I read somewhere that Usenet has been in sharp decline for a couple of
years now, as Google Groups, Yahoo! Groups and web-based discussion
forums (not to mention social networking sites) take over. Several
ISPs have either dropped Usenet altogether, or offer such a poor
service that it deters people from using it.




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