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Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
> 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

how about when you compare the volume of usenet traffic with the pirated 
blue-ray ISOs and stuff like that, instead of posts to the irix groups?