Moe Trin wrote:
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> A lot depends on what you are looking for in Usenet. The "official"
> Big-Eight list of newsgroups is actually quite small (from a monthly
> posting to news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, news.lists.misc,
> there were just 2291 groups in the "Big Eight" hierarchies [comp.*,
> humanities.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, and talk.*]), and
> most servers carry far more than that (comcast, which is now using
> giganews, carries 4696 groups in those hierarchies), never mind the
> alternative hierarchies and everything else (giganews carries 109154
> groups last I counted). Are you only interested in 'text' newsgroups?
> Do you need 'binary' groups as well? How much traffic? Are there any
> special/unusual groups you follow?
I've been reading/posting in 4 or 5 different alt. groups for, let's say
16 years (Laznerian). It's been interesting to watch the growth of
different web-based fora - I think we've about got to a place where most
of those septemberites have been sucked away by a more user-friendly
format. Those that are still here are those that were here before. On
one hand I'm happy that it takes more effort to get here, but I'm not
willing to pay for services no longer rendered.
We've been looking at various free newsreaders and I think we've found
one that will probably work for us. The remaining issue is that by
ridding ourselves of the evil that is comcast, we're looking at
welcoming back the evil that is Qwest.
bri- Where is Cthulu when you really need him?-gid
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