From: ivan@siamics.net   
      
   >>>>> John W Kennedy  writes:   
   >>>>> On 5/22/18 4:08 PM, Kip Ingram wrote:   
      
    >> Ugh.  I doubt I'll do that.  So I guess you're saying this group is   
    >> dead.   
      
    > USENET is dead.   
      
   	That doesn't seem entirely true.  For example, looking through   
   	Aioe reveals the following groups.   
      
   I: alt.arts.poetry.comments: Selected group (40685; 220432 to 261185)   
   I: alt.russian.z1: Selected group (16297; 467291 to 483589)   
   I: de.soc.umwelt: Selected group (9371; 122983 to 132359)   
   I: fr.rec.photo: Selected group (8898; 138657 to 147564)   
   I: free.uk.astrology: Selected group (12916; 44635 to 57553)   
   I: it.comp.giochi.action: Selected group (15509; 347128 to 369705)   
   I: it.cultura.filosofia: Selected group (11292; 114362 to 125783)   
   I: lada.talk: Selected group (12578; 100657 to 113236)   
   I: linux.debian.bugs.rc: Selected group (10334; 223529 to 233864)   
   I: misc.survivalism: Selected group (10947; 517844 to 528792)   
   I: pl.misc.samochody: Selected group (10801; 492604 to 503408)   
   I: rec.arts.sf.written: Selected group (7924; 486186 to 494151)   
   I: sci.electronics.design: Selected group (15959; 493555 to 509533)   
   I: soc.culture.china: Selected group (13041; 277357 to 290411)   
   I: uk.legal.moderated: Selected group (8083; 221155 to 229239)   
   I: uk.railway: Selected group (14445; 471593 to 486037)   
      
   	Given that retention there is about four months (or so)   
   	for most of the groups, it looks like there're a number of   
   	groups that get around a hundred posts a day.   
      
   	It does not, of course, guarantee that a specific individual   
   	will find anything of value to him- or herself among these groups.   
      
   [...]   
      
    > But, realistically speaking, for celebrities to communicate with   
    > ordinary people, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are today’s world,   
    > and, of those three, Twitter is, on the whole, the most satisfactory.   
      
   	Personally, any communication medium that is decentralized and   
   	has an open protocol is fine with me.  Bonus points for having a   
   	working Emacs-based user agent (or at least one accessible via tty.)   
      
   	AFAICT, none of the above fits these criteria.   
      
   [...]   
      
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