In article ,
critcher wrote:
Would I be correct in assuming that most of the posters and readers on
this ng are of a mature age. i.e. 55 - 80 yrs.
It is difficult to guess age from a posting, but from the info given
out, there seems to be an abundance of wisdom here.

Of course. Only those who were fairly early adopters of things computer
are still interested in a text only medium.

Most want pictures and pretty colours.

But it's not only Usenet. Noticed that some email groups I've belonged to
who have started a parallel web based forum very soon lose traffic to the
email side, and usually close.

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