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Cydrome Leader <presence@MUNGEpanix.com> wrote:
> 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?

is that still happening?  kinda thought most of that stuff had moved to
torrents