From: joemonk64@gmail.com   
      
   > > Usenet? Usenet's been dead forever. This is a google group...   
   > That will come as news to nntp://news.eternal-september.org    
      
   "The final nail, though it was a slow death, was the Eternal September.   
   Usenet's reliance on culture, especially netiquette, simply couldn't keep pace   
   with the flood of new users, most especially from AOL. The "September effect"   
   referred to the annual    
   influx of new users at the start of the academic year, but its scale relative   
   to established users was such that social mechanisms: FAQs, LARTs,   
   admonishments, and leading by example, were sufficient to assimilate new   
   users. The problem remains a    
   significant one."   
      
   https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3c3xyu/why_usenet_died/   
      
   Joe   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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