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  • RIP Usenet is Dead

    From Stephen Wolstenholme@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Sun Jan 24 13:42:43 2016
    On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 07:00:48 -0600, bleak_fire_
    <[email protected]d> wrote:

    on the great fire of Wed, 13 Jan 2016 01:35:49 +0000, Lukas Twig jumped
    from the flames, screaming:

    But let's face it: Usenet is fucking dead!


    Only if you want it to be...stay on Usenet until the end!

    If you look at the stats Usenet posts and reads are increasing. There
    was a drop in 2008 when some providers decided Usenet was costing them
    too much.

    Steve

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    Neural Network Software for Windows http://www.npsnn.com

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  • From bleak_fire_@21:1/5 to Stephen Wolstenholme on Mon Feb 15 09:24:55 2016
    On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 13:42:43 +0000, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:

    On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 07:00:48 -0600, bleak_fire_ <[email protected]d> wrote:

    on the great fire of Wed, 13 Jan 2016 01:35:49 +0000, Lukas Twig jumped >>from the flames, screaming:

    But let's face it: Usenet is fucking dead!


    Only if you want it to be...stay on Usenet until the end!

    If you look at the stats Usenet posts and reads are increasing. There
    was a drop in 2008 when some providers decided Usenet was costing them
    too much.

    Steve

    True, but the overwhelming majority of the stats apply to binary
    newsgroups.

    --

    bleak_fire_

    since nine-seven

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Lukas Twig@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 13 01:35:49 2016
    But let's face it: Usenet is fucking dead!

    Okay, got a good 20 year run, so shouldn't complain, I guess. But sad is
    sad.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From bleak_fire_@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 24 07:00:48 2016
    on the great fire of Wed, 13 Jan 2016 01:35:49 +0000, Lukas Twig jumped
    from the flames, screaming:

    But let's face it: Usenet is fucking dead!


    Only if you want it to be...stay on Usenet until the end!

    --

    bleak_fire_

    since nine-seven

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