From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   why not?   
      
   Alt.newsgroups used to be *extremely* popular, until AOL came into existence,   
   in the mid-to-late '80s.  That was the first exodus.  Then high speed internet   
   / broadband came into existence, and that was the second exodus.  When myspace   
   and facebook broke    
   onto the scene, that pretty much nailed the third exodus -- now, Google has   
   incorporated "google groups" into its toolbox, so *maybe* the readership /   
   number of live posters *might* return, like salmon spawning upstream.  The   
   long & the short of it --    
   more readers / posters yields a better experience.   
      
   alt.dreams.sexual, for instance, was completely overrun by spammers.  I tried   
   cleaning out a number of them / reporting, but it was too much for one person.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)