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  • Re: 30 Hours of Usenet

    From D Finnigan@21:1/5 to Jason Evans on Mon Sep 12 12:27:53 2022
    On 9/12/22 5:27 AM, Jason Evans wrote:
    Hi all,

    I recently got my Usenet server up and running again the way that I like.
    So far its been up for about 30 hours and I wanted to share some
    statistics.

    In the past 30 hours:

    I have downloaded 112MB of new articles.
    Total number of articles: 27041
    The alt hierarchy is the largest with 7487 articles.

    The top 15 newsgroups (that I carry) are:

    Isn't it so interesting to see what people most want to talk about?

    Human beings have a fundamental, biological drive to communicate with
    each other, regardless of whether there is any willing and attentive
    audience.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to D Finnigan on Mon Sep 12 18:53:16 2022
    D Finnigan <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 9/12/22 5:27 AM, Jason Evans wrote:

    I recently got my Usenet server up and running again the way that I like. >>So far its been up for about 30 hours and I wanted to share some >>statistics.

    In the past 30 hours:

    I have downloaded 112MB of new articles.
    Total number of articles: 27041
    The alt hierarchy is the largest with 7487 articles.

    The top 15 newsgroups (that I carry) are:

    Isn't it so interesting to see what people most want to talk about?

    I don't agree that Jason's list of article counts has identified
    Usenet discussion taking place. You saw there was a *.test newsgroup in
    there. Several of the active newsgroups are dominated by articles from
    the Web reposted to Usenet, which isn't discussion of any kind.

    Human beings have a fundamental, biological drive to communicate with
    each other, regardless of whether there is any willing and attentive >audience.

    Eh. Usenet's too hard to use, or something.

    Unmoderated Usenet has the extreme advantage of censorship being
    impossible except by the originating News site. Would be nice if people
    who bitch about censorship on Facebook and other Web forums grasped that
    they have a choice about where to hold discussions.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From D Finnigan@21:1/5 to Adam H. Kerman on Tue Sep 13 12:20:58 2022
    On 9/12/22 1:53 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
    D Finnigan <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 9/12/22 5:27 AM, Jason Evans wrote:

    I recently got my Usenet server up and running again the way that I like. >>> So far its been up for about 30 hours and I wanted to share some
    statistics.

    In the past 30 hours:

    I have downloaded 112MB of new articles.
    Total number of articles: 27041
    The alt hierarchy is the largest with 7487 articles.

    The top 15 newsgroups (that I carry) are:

    Isn't it so interesting to see what people most want to talk about?

    I don't agree that Jason's list of article counts has identified
    Usenet discussion taking place.

    No, I don't agree either.


    Several of the active newsgroups are dominated by articles from
    the Web reposted to Usenet, which isn't discussion of any kind.

    Agreed.



    Human beings have a fundamental, biological drive to communicate with
    each other, regardless of whether there is any willing and attentive
    audience.

    Eh. Usenet's too hard to use, or something.

    Unmoderated Usenet has the extreme advantage of censorship being
    impossible except by the originating News site. Would be nice if people
    who bitch about censorship on Facebook and other Web forums grasped that
    they have a choice about where to hold discussions.

    Do they really have a choice if they don't know about these other venues?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)