> >> I thought it should have died when pr0n and > >> w4rez took it over (in the late 90's).. > > Many of the tech groups remain quite healthy. I still moderate > comp.compilers which gets about 100 posts/month.
Those of us still doing work with USENET know that it isn't dead, far from it, but we're aware that there's a certain amount of illicit traffic. It's kind of like the way that pr0n and w4rez dominate all the Internet, but this doesn't seem to faze Internet network operators. > Actually, it's fine with us that the ignorant masses think that usenet > is dead, since it tends to keep out the riffraff. And that's the difference between USENET and the Internet; we've largely gotten our nice messaging network back now that all the AOL newbies are instead attracted to all the forums and blogs of the Internet; running a newsreader client is needlessly complex and may be beyond some of them. :-) ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
