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On 01/28/2016 12:24 AM, Orange wrote:


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On 01/27/2016 08:28 PM, Orange wrote:


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On 01/27/2016 05:07 PM, Orange wrote:
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On 01/27/2016 11:52 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:
On 2016-01-27, The Real Bev wrote:
On 01/26/2016 06:11 AM, chris wrote:
On 22/01/2016 22:47, The Real Bev wrote:
This **** is why usenet has so few viable groups left. Do you
really
want to kill this one too?

That's what killfiles are for. You never need to hear from the
trolls/idiots/flamers again.

Of course. It's also possible to just not look at things. But
when
the
overwhelming majority of posts are pure trash, reasonable people
just
stop reading. I'm tougher than most, I don't give up easily, and
I
know how useless taking a group moderated can be. If people would
just
stop responding to the ****heads (clearly an impossibility, as
history
shows) the problem would disappear; unfortunately, it's more
likely
that the group disappears.

Of the groups into which this is x-posted, I only read
comp.mobile.android. I really hope that this crap doesn't kill
that
group.

People have been trying and failing to kill Usenet for a long, long
time. I wouldn't worry about it.

The groups that I reallly liked and was involved with are all dead.
Perhaps people just find facebook easier to deal with. Or more
pleasant.
Or something.

What has actually happened is that almost no one has even
heard of usenet, so inevitably it fades away as people die off
or stop using it.

Few used it even when it was highly active.

And few had even heard about it even then.

When I rode on the ski
lifts with strangers I asked them if they ever used any of the skiing
or
other newsgroups. Granted, a small sample -- maybe 100 people, if
that --
but you'd think that ONE might have been an addict. Nope.

And I wouldn’t be surprised if almost none of them had even heard about
it.

Exactly. The closest response was "You mean like myspace?"

For swift help from strangers, many of whom are actually qualified to
offer it, nothing has even come close.

You clearly don’t use facebook. Even with the most basic question
like what shops are open on Xmas day or who is the best vet to
get a pet microchipped at most cheaply, you normally get an
answer very quickly, even if you ask at say 4am.

Most of my FB friends live in other states and are unlikely to know such
things.

I wasn’t talking about facebook friends.

What do you mean?

The local facebook group. Ours is called 'xxxxxx community notice board'

In my experience with other 'local' non-facebook groups, 'local' people
for my locality are... inexpert.

You don’t need to be an expert in that sort of thing,
just to have noticed it or to have experienced it.

And you get the experts there too. In the case of the
places open on a national holiday, one of the few
places in my town that chose to be open that day did
in fact publicise that fact in that group deliberately.

The same thing has happened with those the people
who show up in town and will microchip your pet in
your own home much more cheaply than the vets
will do it for, in a blitz town by town. That is in fact
by far the best way to get the word out when you
are doing something like that, now that so few
bother to pay for the town newspaper anymore.

Same with those whose pet goes missing, plenty
post a picture of it in that facebook group and
quite quickly have someone say where they have
seen the pet. And the reverse, post a picture of
a pet that has clearly got lost, to have others say
whose pet it might be and have the owner show
say that it is theirs and thank the original poster.

That's in a town of about 26K people.