Keith said:
If I had a nickel for every time someone inaccurately stated the
above, I'd be richer than Warren Buffett.
--keith
You mean for the reason for the dying/slow down of usenet, or the fact
that you don't think it's dying or has slowed down (quite
significantly)? If you think usenet is just as popular as ever (even
trying to claim it's just a matter of less spam or noise now and that's
why it seems slower) would be inaccurate, or you're new to usenet.
Back 10 years ago, this Perl group received about 200-300 posts per day
(legitimate posts, not spam or noise, but actual Perl related topics
and posts). Even 5 years ago about the same. What do we see now?
Maybe 20-30 posts a day. Each year I've became less and less. Look at
the group history and the historical stats to see.
Granted, the Perl group is still one of the more busy one's, others that
are busy are ruby, and a few others, but most that were getting
hundreds of legitimate/relevant posts per day, are now getting a few
dozen at most, where other groups like Linux related one's, Apache,
PHP, webmaster groups, etc. are getting maybe 10 posts a day at most,
where a few years ago they were getting hundreds per day. Some groups
that got dozens to hundreds per day some years ago literally don't get
any (and they weren't just dropped and not removed by the ISP) Do
those stats not play any role in the scenario? If not, why not?
Then consider that less new people to the Internet are using usenet, a
lot of Internet providers are dropping usenet altogether and a few that
still offer them have effectively abandoned NNTP in favor of pushing
their clients through flaky, often downed third party news servers,
isn't helping. If I had a nickel for every time someone inaccurately
claimed usenet wasn't dying... Anyway, I'd say "Let's take a bet and
post here again in 10 years", but I'm betting usenet is potentially
completely gone by then, and maybe sooner.
