From: ce11son@yahoo.ca
On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 09:37:40 -0700 (PDT), gyansorova@gmail.com wrote:
>On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 12:35:12 PM UTC+13, Fred J. McCall wrote:
>> "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.
>>
>> --
>> You are
>> What you do
>> When it counts.
>
>Apart from REAL freedom of speech it doesn't really offer much nowadays. No
pics, vids etc.
>
Pictures and videos live in the binary newsgroups.
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