In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Will in New Haven) wrote:

I know that usenet is getting very quiet but nothing, including the
views, has changed here or on rec.games.bridge in days.

Usenet still has active groups here and there, but I'm seeing no more
traffic here than you.

John

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I know that usenet is getting very quiet but nothing, including the views, has changed here or on rec.games.bridge in days.

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On Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 2:19:52 PM UTC-5, Will in New Haven wrote:

I know that usenet is getting very quiet but nothing, including the views, has changed here or on rec.games.bridge in days.

Everybody pretty much migrated to other media, like chatrooms and social media websites. I'd be surprised to find that anyone still knows about usenet anymore.

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On Friday, November 22, 2019 at 8:44:45 AM UTC-5, Ralph Glatt wrote:

On Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 2:19:52 PM UTC-5, Will in New Haven wrote:

I know that usenet is getting very quiet but nothing, including the views, has changed here or on rec.games.bridge in days.

Everybody pretty much migrated to other media, like chatrooms and social media websites. I'd be surprised to find that anyone still knows about usenet anymore.

Until very recently, the "viewed" count on recent messages was climbing, albeit slowly, although no new messages were appearing. Now the "viewed" count is static. That seemed weird.

Bill

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In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Will in New Haven) wrote:

Until very recently, the "viewed" count on recent messages was
climbing, albeit slowly, although no new messages were appearing.
Now the "viewed" count is static. That seemed weird.

What was calculating these counts? Usenet has no method of doing that
globally. If Google Groups was doing it, that would not include anyone
who used any other means of access.

John

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On 11/21/19 2:19 PM, Will in New Haven wrote:

I know that usenet is getting very quiet but nothing, including the views, has changed here or on rec.games.bridge in days.

Rec.games.frp.dnd has a low but fairly steady volume of traffic. This group (.misc) was always the lower volume group.



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On Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 2:19:52 PM UTC-5, Will in New Haven wrote:

I know that usenet is getting very quiet but nothing, including the views, has changed here or on rec.games.bridge in days.

This newsgroup got a few Shadowrun posts a while back. Other than that, nothing.

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In message <[email protected]>
Will in New Haven <[email protected]> wrote:

I know that usenet is getting very quiet but nothing, including the views, has changed here or on rec.games.bridge in days.

Unfortunately true. Some parts are still alive but I'm guessing most of
those coming online 'recently' don't even know it exists. I'm still
undecided as to whether that's a good or bad thing.

At least we're spared twitterstorms and pics of 'Me and other people
having a burger' ad nauseum.

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On Thursday, December 5, 2019 at 11:09:10 AM UTC-5, Stephen Frost wrote:

In message <[email protected]>
Will in New Haven <[email protected]> wrote:

I know that usenet is getting very quiet but nothing, including the views, has changed here or on rec.games.bridge in days.

Unfortunately true. Some parts are still alive but I'm guessing most of
those coming online 'recently' don't even know it exists. I'm still
undecided as to whether that's a good or bad thing.

At least we're spared twitterstorms and pics of 'Me and other people
having a burger' ad nauseum.

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Back in 2004, I knew a girl who thought the web was the internet. I tried to explain that it's a lot more, but she didn't seem interested.

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