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From: Captain Compassion <daranc@nospamverizon.net>
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Paul Murphy <CornedBeef@Cabbage.com> wrote in news:2015062505555950073-
CornedBeef@Cabbagecom:
> Imporrtant movements rise and fall in cycles. I first found the Usenet
> in the late 1980s, on an Amiga 500. At it's height, I was a member of
> about 120 groups. Then 2 things happened. The WWW came along, and
bled
> off users. Young people weren't finding out about the Usenet.
Secondly,
> Groups began to be attacked by spammers. In a colossal blunder of
> failure to understand their own self-interest, Giganews and other
> providers refused to do anyathing about it. Group after group got
> choked by spam to the extent that it was hard to find real posts.
Users
> disappeared, and groups closed down. In a few cases, groups that once
> had many contributors were sustained by a superstar:Captain Salvo in
> music; Rockhound 57 in e-books, cronic and a few others in audiobooks.
> Today, only the audiobook people remain, snd they aren't worth $30 a
> month. So long, Usenet. I knew ye well.
>
> Paul
>
>
Been on Usenet sense 1993. I'll stop when it's no longer viable. Thanks
Cronic.Your stuff is first class.
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