Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:52:34 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Subject: Re: OT: The future of USENET? Message-ID: <20130327115234.1ff721ae.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20130327094925.GA2867@tinyCurrent> References: <20130327094925.GA2867@tinyCurrent>
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On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:49:25 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > Where have all the people gone? They're using wibbly wobbly web wonder services, unless they've been placed in a retirement castle. :-) > Is USENET coming to its end? I think it's just changing audiences. A common means of USENET today seems to be binary groups for sharing warez. There are few newsgroups considered "old-fashioned", "greybeard" and "elitist" grounds. The common means of communication probably has moved to other services, generic ones such as mailing lists, and more "service- oriented" ones like the many web-based platforms. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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