From: fjmccall@gmail.com   
      
   "Mary"  wrote:   
      
   >"Fred J. McCall"  wrote in message   
   >news:1b2nfad5mbd3aajbeitkor7nmlflrjkvms@4ax.com...   
   >> "Mary"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>"Adam Whyte-Settlar"  wrote in message   
   >>>news:eca7703f-352f-4992-89a2-8bc4281595c3@googlegroups.com...   
   >>>> On Saturday, 28 February 2015 10:06:42 UTC+13, Mary  wrote:   
   >>>>> I wanted to see if this got posted. I haven't seen any posts on any of   
   >>>>> the   
   >>>>> newsgroups I usually check for the last 3 days.   
   >>>>> Is this the end?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I still drop in from time to time but I rarely follow the threads any   
   >>>> more.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Its a shame Usenet newsgroups seem to have declined - it was one of the   
   >>>> last vestiges of free speech.   
   >>>   
   >>>I completely agree Adam. I really don't know why it declined. I still go   
   >>>on   
   >>>a few newsgroups that Ive been on for many years, and some of the same   
   >>>people that went there years ago, still post there, but not nearly as   
   >>>active. I can only guess that most people who used to post on newsgroups   
   >>>got   
   >>>tired of newsgroups and wanted a change and they went to Facebook or   
   >>>Twitter   
   >>>and like it there. Each to his own I guess.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Newsgroups largely declined because most ISPs stopped carrying them.   
   >> The other driver of the decline was that too many brainless trolls and   
   >> egomaniacs started infesting them.  A lot of us got bored with it when   
   >> that happened.  I dropped off for half a dozen years or so, but some   
   >> folks just never came back.   
   >   
   >But its been quite a few years since most ISP's stopped carrying newsgroups.   
   >But soon after they stopped, most people who liked certain newsgroups found   
   >free news servers. Since my ISP stopped providing newsgroups years ago now,   
   >Ive used Aioe for my news server and also Ive used Eternal-September both   
   >good and free. Google was free but I never used it for newsgroups. Google   
   >groups used to be not bad years ago, but I havent been on them for years.   
   >I didn't think it was too bad for trolls on scs but it had its share, but   
   >there are groups a lot worse for trolls. You've been posting here quite   
   >regularly for a lot of years now. Its not that long since a lot of people   
   >from here went to Facebook and Twitter and maybe just wanted something new -   
   >a change and liked it there.   
   >   
      
   The death of Usenet has been a gradual thing and a lot of factors   
   played in it.  The decline actually started back when AOL first   
   started providing Usenet access...   
      
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