On Monday, March 9, 2015 at 1:28:19 PM UTC+13, Charles Ellson wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Not THAT sort of pics and vids!! If you are describing something then a pic is   
   worth a thousand words. Scientific things are better on FB. I know some old   
   fuddy duddy won't agree. Politics is not so good on FB since you are limited -   
   your post may end up    
   front page of the Daily Wank.   
      
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