Have we all lost interest in NG

But there's only about 4 contributers (and dwindleing) - your thoughts, though noble, are pretty much off target.

Nothing wrong with that, however that is another way to help the NG go down the pan - give up posting and e-mail the ''mate'' instead. I respectfully suggest that the wood is hidden by the trees...

Julian.

There's over 10 contributors so far this month and it's only the 4th.

John

And how many posts total?

Now go and take a look over on the Lister Engine Forum, then come back here and tell us of your findings.

Julian.

RIP Usenet?

Sums it up quite well, although I have never had the need to go into the alt.binary groups for anything.

Peter

-- Peter A Forbes Prepair Ltd, Rushden, UK snipped-for-privacy@prepair.co.uk

I found a fuller version of the same article:-

Surely there must still be a place for a nice bandwidth efficient text only discussion medium, or is the future of the computing world predicated on ever increasing growth in speed and capacity just as the future of the financial world is predicated on ever increasing economic growth - oops!

NHH

Nick H wrote (snip):

No I didn't, I just missed the intro first time round - I'll go back to sleep! Anyway, the whole thing is worth reading.

NHH

Most have.

The problem is that people don't use the newsgroups half as much as they used to, and there is an administrative overhead to keep it all running: separate servers etc etc.

When I first got onto Usenet there were 25,000 groups, very few in the UK rec hierarchy and very restricted access.

Now there are over 120,000 and growing fast as the 'third world' gets onto the system.

I'd guess that most western ISP's will drop overall coverage and limit access to that country's groups, as the overseas ones are pretty much unreadable to most Europeans.

Peter

-- Peter & Rita Forbes Email: snipped-for-privacy@easynet.co.uk