Posted by sethra on 01/25/06 04:55

fred-bloggs wrote in
news:43d3cf65$0$73532$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net:

> "Don M." <newsreader@nospam4fineartsnospam.com> wrote in
> news:L4-dnZzC5_xJVk7eRVn-rg@giganews.com:
>
>> I couldn't resist posting this, even though 19 days short from
>> complete. Skip it if you don't like stats.
>> http://tinyurl.com/b6mhj (same as...
>> http://netscan.research.microsoft.com/reportcard.aspx?tp=14&sd=1/1/200
>> 5 &ng=alt.music.mp3 )
>>
>
> People -46%
> Returnees -44%
> Repliers -44%
>
> Seems the trolls are doing well :(

Could be, but I think it's more due to so many other forms of
communication popping up that are available to people -- thousands of
web-based forums, IM networks, provider-specific discussion and chat
groups, etc. A lot of ISPs are starting to consider Usenet feeds
optional, and have limited or no "built-in" Usenet support at all, and
make their customers pay a premium NNTP provider for service.

Still seems to be a healthy binary presence on Usenet, but the number of
users of the text groups seems to be declining every year.

I bet if you asked today's "average" internet user what Usenet was you'd
get a blank look. Wouldn't have been like that 10 years ago.

</ramble off>

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~sethra

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