From: makowiec@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 02 Oct 2015 in soc.culture.scottish, David Edmunds wrote:   
      
   > It may be too late to do anything about this newsgroup, but surely   
   > those of us remaining should try to do something.   
   >   
   > Anyone out there have any ideas?   
   >   
   > Whatever happened to the plans for Usenet 2.0?   
      
   I'm still out here.  Glad to see some people still monitor the group.   
   Personally, I have a Facebook account (for professional reasons), but I   
   use it as little as possible.   
      
   Usenet's still alive, albeit fairly limited - mostly oldsters and geeks,   
   particularly where the two groups overlap.  I'd never heard about Usenet   
   2.0, but when most of the madding crowd is willing to put up with web   
   fora, and usenet (and other nntp forums) are (charitably) slowing, what's   
   the point to putting effort into something nobody will hear about?   
      
   I did a nostalgia trip recently; here's the last snapshot of Ian   
   Stewart's website, including the SCS Informer:   
      
   https://web.archive.org/web/20110720163422/http://www.ian-stewart.eu/   
      
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   Joe Makowiec   
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   Email: http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe   
   Usenet Improvement Project: http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/   
      
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