From: steve@easynn.com   
      
   On Sun, 06 Mar 2016 18:11:15 -0500, hubops@ccanoemail.com wrote:   
      
   >On Sun, 06 Mar 2016 15:54:46 +0000, Stephen Wolstenholme   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Sun, 6 Mar 2016 10:43:30 -0500, Vaughn Simon   
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>On 3/6/2016 4:23 AM, gordo wrote:   
   >>>>   still a test is this group alive   
   >>>>   
   >>>A few of us are still present, but from here the room looks pretty empty.   
   >>>   
   >>>The Usenet is almost history, and that's a shame because it gave   
   >>>discussion groups some organization, and kept everything on one   
   >>>platform.  Now everything is splintered into tens of thousands of forums   
   >>>and blogs that come and go like the weather.   
   >>>   
   >>>Vaughn   
   >>   
   >>The scattering of Usenet over thousands of forums is what produces   
   >>comments about the end of Usenet. I only use a hundred or so Usenet   
   >>groups but there's no way I would have time to log in and read that   
   >>many forums.   
   >>   
   >>Steve   
   >   
   >   
   >  100  !  Really ?    ... could you name just a few for us  -   
      
   All the alt.comp...   
   All the comp...   
   All the grc...   
   All the microsoft...   
   All the rec...   
   All the sci...   
   All the uk...   
      
   I also subscribe to another 500 or so in case some become interesting.   
   I refresh all the groups from seven different servers about once a   
   month. There are 127,462 of which 219 are new since last months   
   refresh.   
      
   Steve   
      
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