Subj : Re: Usenet Groups
To : MRO
From : hollowone
Date : Wed Sep 20 2023 01:05 pm
MR> oh good we can have a competition to see which old hobby dies off first.
MR> i'm surprised there's any people actually using usenet like that.
MR> i guess the bots stopped raping it with spam.
Many people still use some of the usenet groups via google groups gateway. Google is trying to filter out spam.. but at the same time they are a major contributor to have it spawned as well.
I occasionally check USENET to see some groups are indeed relatively active.. but I'd say all FTNs together generate much more traffic than USENET today.
Still as a tech opportunity I find it interesting to see NNTP gateway under BBS credentials to access FTNs discussions via usenet client. I think Synchronet allows it, yet I don't see anybody truly enabling it.
