From: "@frank.net   
      
   On 7/31/2024 4:52 AM, D wrote:   
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   > On Tue, 30 Jul 2024, Lucas McCain wrote:   
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   >> On 7/30/2024 12:19 PM, rbowman wrote:   
   >>> On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:05:40 -0600, Lucas McCain wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> Good questions, Deb. Don was selling off a lot of his stuff toward the   
   >>>> end of his presence in the newsgroup, selling his vehicle, which is a   
   >>>> big life changing event, I'm sure.  Winston may have just gotten tired   
   >>>> of the trolls who seem to live just to harass interesting people out of   
   >>>> the discussion group.   
   >>>   
   >>> I saw a falloff in this group and others when Google Groups shut down   
   >>> Usenet access in February and people weren't interested enough to set   
   >>> up a   
   >>> NNTP server/client.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Good observations, Mr. Bowman.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Compared with the options out there for long form discussions, I think   
   > usenet works way, way better even before google shut down. I block   
   > messages which are sent to more than 3 groups, and I use some political   
   > groups for killfile harvesting, and the remainder is pretty good.   
   >   
   > The only complaint is that in many groups the activity is quite low or   
   > non-existant but the groups I have found I think make for a manageable   
   > amount of messages.   
      
      
   I saw the big drop in use net when ISP's quit supplying free access to   
   Giganews feed.   
      
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