On 2015-06-24 17:56:49 +0000, Jose <Jose@Wales> said:
> maybe time to jump ship from giganews, few reasons to stay aboard now
> without a captain
Agreed.
Imporrtant movements rise and fall in cycles. I first found the Usenet
in the late 1980s, on an Amiga 500. At it's height, I was a member of
about 120 groups. Then 2 things happened. The WWW came along, and bled
off users. Young people weren't finding out about the Usenet. Secondly,
Groups began to be attacked by spammers. In a colossal blunder of
failure to understand their own self-interest, Giganews and other
providers refused to do anyathing about it. Group after group got
choked by spam to the extent that it was hard to find real posts. Users
disappeared, and groups closed down. In a few cases, groups that once
had many contributors were sustained by a superstar:Captain Salvo in
music; Rockhound 57 in text xbooks, cronic in audiobooks. Today, only
Cronic remains, snd he's not worth $30 a month. So long, Usenet. I knew
ye well.
Paul
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