From: shawn wilson [mailto:ag4ve...@gmail.com] > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:10 AM, John W. Krahn <jwkr...@shaw.ca> wrote: > > Danny Gratzer wrote: > >> > >> I'm looking at comp.lang.perl and it doesn't seem like it's had new posts > >> in well, years. Is it dead? > > > > > > It died in 1995. > > i thought usenet died in '96? i got a news reader up the other day, > went through some feeds and haven't opened it sense.
Usenet is alive and very well, even if you chose to ignore the alt.binaries.* groups. While the comp.sources.* groups have been superseded by live SCM servers and sites like Sourceforge, many of the discussion groups are still very active. I am using Astraweb <http://astraweb.com/> which has more than four years of retention on most groups. Plans are priced by your choice of bandwidth or volume. Bob McConnell
