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From: Peter Wanker <pwanker1@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Sad...
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 10:11:29 -0500
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On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 07:37:55 -0500, Asset Tag 4M76 <vr@vr.org> wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 21:20:32 -0500, Peter Wanker <pwanker1@yahoo.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:31:10 -0500, The Man <> wrote:
>>
>>>It all ended when most ISP's stopped newsgroups and it all went to pay
>>>newsgroups. "alt.binaries.pictures.nude" is still pretty active.
>>
>>Paying for news is really not that expensive. I guess Usenet, as
>>as whole is dying. Too may separate forums, etc. I guess the
>>complaint about spam is legitimate, but it can be controlled --
>>as this NG can prove.
>>
>>I guess the 'open' mind set is gone ....
>>
>>Another, almost dead, dinosaur.
>
>It's a shame that the spammers have taken over many of the old groups,
>posting nonstop.
Yep. To the extent that even many technical groups have lost so may
fans who had to go off and start a forum with controlled access. Just
a pain to have a million logons, etc. Usenet was so easy to use. I
guess it will never come back to what it was as a kind of culture is
dying away.
Sad, indeed. Shame, indeed.
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