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Default OT - this group is alone

On 9/10/2013 11:11 AM, Larry Blanchard wrote:
I read about 10 different newsgroups. With the proliferation of other
online sources and the dropping of Usenet by several providers, the
traffic in my newsgroups has been slowly going away.

For the last week or so, this newsgroup has been the only one with posts
- not counting an occasional troller/spammer who gets through the filters.

Wonder how long this group will keep going?


I monitor about a half-dozen; three of which are roughly the same volume
as r.w; one is about half the other is 3-5X the traffic.

I don't see usenet disappearing entirely for a while yet altho certainly
the proliferation of the web forum is all that newbies generally ever
see unless they're pointed to usenet by other users.

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