From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 28 Mar 2016, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.folklore.urban, in article   
   , Thomas Prufer wrote:   
      
   >There are hundreds if not thousands of lurkers here!   
      
   And they ALL agree with me!   
      
   >Usenet in general is in decline, though,   
      
   Has been for how many years?    I'm scanning  79-82 newsgroups:   
      
   Year         2010    2011   2013   2014   2015   2016   
   Articles     77990  62857  61834  65127  55372  11714   
      
   2016 is to 0200 UTC 29 May, so multiply that number by 4 to get an order   
   of magnitude.     But yeah - when was the last time you saw a post in   
   alt.humor.best-of-usenet?    (4 in June 2014 - before that, 9 in October   
   2013, 7 in April 2013 and 13 in January 2013 - but my logs only go back   
   to January 2003)   
      
   >a lot of the a last active groups I read are being burdened by regulars   
   >soapboxing on politics, or crossposted soapboxing.   
      
   [juno ~]$ grep -vE '^([%\[ ]|Score|$)' score | cut -d' ' -f1 | sort |   
    uniq -c | column   
      1507 From:                97 Message-ID:         697 Subject:   
         3 Lines:               56 References:         104 Xref:   
   [juno ~]$   
      
   You probably don't speak UNIX, but that shows how many rules for a   
   specific header.  A good killfile helps to get the noise levels down.   
   Use to was, there was even a FAQ that told you how to set filters in   
   the "popular" news readers.  About a year ago, it was at   
   http://static.slated.org/killfile/killfilefaq.htm.   
      
     Archive-name: uk/usenet/killfiles   
     Posting-frequency: every calendar month   
     Last-modified: 3 Nov 2002   
      
   Well... maybe Usenet is dying.   
      
           Old guy   
      
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