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barbie gee <booger@nosespam.com> wrote:

> I noticed that there's been a drop off of posts, and recall there was some 
> kind of announcement that someone was dropping the feed.

> Do I really have to go to Google Groups to see it?


I don't see how that would help, unless it's some internal group at Google
and not the usenet group.

Usenet isn't centralized, so one system somewhere "dropping the feed"
wouldn't make any difference in the grand scheme of things.

What is more likely these days is, if there was a specific system like
aol.com or msn.com, where people posted from to that group, and those
systems dropped usenet support, unless the people on those system find
another server, which most probably won't bother, that effects the number of
posts.

But it's not like they are missing, they just don't exist.

Usenet is dying off. Recently someone posted stats on the number of posts
made to it going back to like 1987. The peak was in 1999/2000 and has been
dropping off since. 

We're like at 1992 volume levels now, in another 5 years it'll probably be
at 1987 levels, or for all practical purposes, the best thing next to zero
as you can get.

-bruce
bje@ripco.com