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  • Re: Usenet revival (WAS: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer

    From Spiros Bousbouras@21:1/5 to Stefan Ram on Fri Jan 6 17:22:08 2023
    On 6 Jan 2023 16:47:59 GMT
    [email protected] (Stefan Ram) wrote:
    Marco Moock <[email protected]> writes:
    Ok. Are there any "project" in getting new users to the groups and >advertising them?

    I remember that, maybe 10 years ago, a group of people moved
    from a Web forum to "comp.misc". I think some are still posting
    there today.

    I am aware of 3 threads. Two are from February 2014 :

    From: Oregonian Haruspex <[email protected]>
    Newsgroups: comp.misc
    Subject: Welcome Slashdot refugees!
    Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 22:38:55 -0800
    Message-ID: <ld1v1v$old$[email protected]>

    and

    From: John Brownalt <[email protected]>
    Newsgroups: comp.misc
    Subject: Slashdot Beta Sucks
    Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 10:45:47 +0000 (UTC)
    Organization: Slashdot Beta Exodus
    Message-ID: <ld2dgr$sq0$[email protected]>

    Between them I have 142 message IDs. The first few are
    <ld1v1v$old$[email protected]>
    <MD0Ju.242576$[email protected]>
    <[email protected]d>
    <ld2dgr$sq0$[email protected]>
    <ld2dk0$sq0$[email protected]>
    <ld32j1$nso$[email protected]>
    <ld3360$rqb$[email protected]>
    <52f51f6b$0$2943$[email protected]>
    <52f5346f$0$29659$[email protected]>
    <52f5357c$0$29668$[email protected]>
    <ld3md9$kde$[email protected]>
    <ld3olj$f0$[email protected]>
    <ld3pk6$bfv$[email protected]>
    <52f57685$0$29735$[email protected]>
    <52f57710$0$29255$[email protected]>
    <ld3u1i$1so$[email protected]>
    <ld3u68$2nc$[email protected]>
    <ld3ufu$43s$[email protected]>
    <ld44r1$u2a$[email protected]>
    <ld45ei$la$[email protected]>

    There is also
    From: 711 Spooky Mart <[email protected]>
    Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.folklore.computers
    Subject: SUSE Reviving Usenet
    Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 09:04:16 -0500
    Message-ID: <sj1rna$144n$[email protected]>

    All the message IDs I have from this thread are
    <sj1rna$144n$[email protected]>
    <sj1u3m$v95$[email protected]>
    <sj3ir2$o98$[email protected]>
    <[email protected]>
    <[email protected]>
    <sj9ri3$o3j$[email protected]>
    <snoqok$691$[email protected]>
    <snpm82$1h9f$[email protected]>
    <[email protected]>
    <UzbTJ.7068$[email protected]>
    <[email protected]>
    <[email protected]>
    <[email protected]>
    <svlf9j$154g$[email protected]>
    <[email protected]e>
    <[email protected]>
    <IeqUJ.91125$[email protected]>
    <[email protected]>
    <[email protected]e>
    <[email protected]>
    <svu0v9$2ln6$[email protected]>
    <[email protected]>
    <871qzh47g0.fsf@localhost>
    <1208487086.668131331.469169.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org>
    <[email protected]>
    <svuann$5dh$[email protected]>
    <gDLUJ.56113$[email protected]>
    <[email protected]>

    Otherwise, I am not aware of any revival of the (text) Usenet.

    For "de.all", IIRC, Cornell Binder has created a web site
    with statistics. Something like "usenet.dex.de". I have the
    impression that the use is still descreasing and I am afraid
    there will be no revival.

    There may or may not be revival depending on all kinds of social factors and random events.

    --
    vlaho.ninja/prog

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