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Geoff Gass wrote:
> 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

Usenet it still big for that as well due to its perceived higher levels 
of anonymization than torrenting provides.

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smr