Im doing some research for an article and would appreciate any pointers
towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and on-topic. For
example, rec.autos.sport.F1. What groups across Big 8, uk.*, and other
hierarchies do you keep in your subs list due to the good reading they
make?

Ta.

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On 13 Sep 2019 06:23:35 GMT, Stephen Cole
wrote:

I’m doing some research for an article and would appreciate any pointers
towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and on-topic. For
example, rec.autos.sport.F1. What groups across Big 8, uk.*, and other
hierarchies do you keep in your subs list due to the good reading they
make?

Ta.

You could try this one.

alt.activism.death-penalty

;-)

Enjoy

AB

On 13 Sep 2019, Stephen Cole wrote
(in article ):

Im doing some research for an article and would appreciate any pointers
towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and on-topic. For
example, rec.autos.sport.F1. What groups across Big 8, uk.*, and other
hierarchies do you keep in your subs list due to the good reading they
make?

Ta.

Im sure there are none. The moment a NG becomes active and popular the
trolls move in and start spamming. Its an almost full time task to keep up
with them and kill files them.
This NG, uk.d-i-y is rapidly going that way. Give it another year and it will
be unreadable.
pfj

That very much depends on the user, surely? OK you can kill file people, but
as text is such a low memory eating system, most of the time you just pick
the threads that interest you just as you would because of topics on topic
which do not interest you. I think the worst ones are those where the
advertisers spam the groups, dealing with people paranoid about politics or
whatever does not worry me in the slightest, if you let it do so you would
never read anything on the internet due to adverts and click through links
etc.
Brian

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"pete" wrote in message
vidual.NET...
On 13 Sep 2019, Stephen Cole wrote
(in article ):

I'm doing some research for an article and would appreciate any pointers
towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and on-topic. For
example, rec.autos.sport.F1. What groups across Big 8, uk.*, and other
hierarchies do you keep in your subs list due to the good reading they
make?

Ta.

I'm sure there are none. The moment a NG becomes active and popular the
trolls move in and start spamming. It's an almost full time task to keep
up
with them and kill files them.
This NG, uk.d-i-y is rapidly going that way. Give it another year and it
will
be unreadable.
pfj

On 13/09/2019 07:41, pete wrote:
On 13 Sep 2019, Stephen Cole wrote
(in article ):

Im doing some research for an article and would appreciate any pointers
towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and on-topic. For
example, rec.autos.sport.F1. What groups across Big 8, uk.*, and other
hierarchies do you keep in your subs list due to the good reading they
make?

Ta.

Im sure there are none. The moment a NG becomes active and popular the
trolls move in and start spamming. Its an almost full time task to keep up
with them and kill files them.
This NG, uk.d-i-y is rapidly going that way. Give it another year and it will
be unreadable.
pfj


Also the rise of search engines and forum sites has made Usenet a bit
redundant for 'i need help' inquiries.

The only saving grace is that its is the one place that is not censored
by anyone but its participants.

Which is why UK.d-i-y is highly political right now. Where else can you
have freedom of speech?



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Stephen Cole wrote

Im doing some research for an article and would appreciate any pointers
towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and on-topic.

**** all with on topic and it obviously depends on how you define well used.

For example, rec.autos.sport.F1. What groups across
Big 8, uk.*, and other hierarchies do you keep in your
subs list due to the good reading they make?

On Friday, 13 September 2019 07:23:39 UTC+1, Stephen Cole wrote:
Im doing some research for an article and would appreciate any pointers
towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and on-topic.

I was going to, tongue-in-cheek, say alt.test but having had a quick look I'm not sure even that is the case any more! ;-)

On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 18:11:30 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:


I¢m doing some research for an article and would appreciate any pointers
towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and on-topic.

**** all with on topic and it obviously depends on how you define well used.

That's what an abnormal trolling senile idiot like you would say of course,
you obnoxious senile pest!

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On 13/09/2019 08:54, The Natural Philosopher wrote:


Which is why UK.d-i-y is highly political right now. Where else can you
have freedom of speech?


I do think that some of the posters fixated by politics should give up
listening/viewing any news broadcast and stop reading any newspaper or
similar Internet content for a month. When they resume they may find
that **** all has changed apart from their mental health for the
previous month.


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On 13 Sep 2019 06:23:35 GMT, Stephen Cole
wrote:

I’m doing some research for an article and would appreciate any pointers
towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and on-topic. For
example, rec.autos.sport.F1. What groups across Big 8, uk.*, and other
hierarchies do you keep in your subs list due to the good reading they
make?

Ta.

only uk.politics dot misc...
serves my purposes just fine and has done for around 20 years

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abelard wrote:
On 13 Sep 2019 06:23:35 GMT, Stephen Cole
wrote:

Im doing some research for an article and would appreciate any pointers
towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and on-topic. For
example, rec.autos.sport.F1. What groups across Big 8, uk.*, and other
hierarchies do you keep in your subs list due to the good reading they
make?

Ta.

only uk.politics dot misc...
serves my purposes just fine and has done for around 20 years

In non uk.* hierarchies I have seen a few+ NG unable to survive
pre-election surge of NTG political spam. It won't kill
uk.politics.misc! ;-)

--
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pete wrote:
On 13 Sep 2019, Stephen Cole wrote
(in article ):

Im doing some research for an article and would appreciate any pointers
towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and on-topic. For
example, rec.autos.sport.F1. What groups across Big 8, uk.*, and other
hierarchies do you keep in your subs list due to the good reading they
make?

Ta.

Im sure there are none. The moment a NG becomes active and popular the
trolls move in and start spamming. Its an almost full time task to keep up
with them and kill files them.
This NG, uk.d-i-y is rapidly going that way. Give it another year and it will
be unreadable.
pfj


uk.legal is already at that stage

On 13/09/2019 11:33, FMurtz wrote:
pete wrote:
On 13 Sep 2019, Stephen Cole wrote
(in article ):

Im doing some research for an article and would appreciate any pointers
towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and on-topic.
For
example, rec.autos.sport.F1. What groups across Big 8, uk.*, and other
hierarchies do you keep in your subs list due to the good reading they
make?

Ta.

Im sure there are none. The moment a NG becomes active and popular the
trolls move in and start spamming. Its an almost full time task to
keep up
with them and kill files them.
This NG, uk.d-i-y is rapidly going that way. Give it another year and
it will
be unreadable.
pfj


uk.legal is already at that stage

It's not rocket surgery to just ignore the posts you don't like or
killfile if wanted.

--
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alan_m wrote:

On 13/09/2019 08:54, The Natural Philosopher wrote:


Which is why UK.d-i-y is highly political right now. Where else can you
have freedom of speech?


I do think that some of the posters fixated by politics should give up
listening/viewing any news broadcast and stop reading any newspaper or
similar Internet content for a month. When they resume they may find
that **** all has changed apart from their mental health for the
previous month.

Didn't someone say, quite wisely: "Put politics in command!" What is
more important?

--

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FMurtz wrote:

pete wrote:
On 13 Sep 2019, Stephen Cole wrote
(in article ):

I'm doing some research for an article and would appreciate any pointers
towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and on-topic. For
example, rec.autos.sport.F1. What groups across Big 8, uk.*, and other
hierarchies do you keep in your subs list due to the good reading they
make?

Ta.

I'm sure there are none. The moment a NG becomes active and popular the
trolls move in and start spamming. It's an almost full time task to keep
up with them and kill files them. This NG, uk.d-i-y is rapidly going
that way. Give it another year and it will be unreadable. pfj


uk.legal is already at that stage

That of course is why, some years ago, ulm was established. But it
does have its disadvantages for wide-ranging discussion.

--

Roger Hayter

Stephen Cole brought next idea :
Im doing some research for an article and would appreciate any
pointers towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and
on-topic. For example, rec.autos.sport.F1. What groups across Big 8,
uk.*, and other hierarchies do you keep in your subs list due to the
good reading they make?

Ta.

uk.people.consumers.ebay

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On 13/09/2019 13:30, Roger Hayter wrote:
alan_m wrote:

On 13/09/2019 08:54, The Natural Philosopher wrote:


Which is why UK.d-i-y is highly political right now. Where else can you
have freedom of speech?


I do think that some of the posters fixated by politics should give up
listening/viewing any news broadcast and stop reading any newspaper or
similar Internet content for a month. When they resume they may find
that **** all has changed apart from their mental health for the
previous month.

Didn't someone say, quite wisely: "Put politics in command!" What is
more important?


What was that criticism that you laid at my door for replying to all NGs
without deleting the crossposts?

Physician (literally), heal thyself!

In article ,
Stephen Cole wrote:
I‘m doing some research for an article and would appreciate any pointers
towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and on-topic. For
example, rec.autos.sport.F1. What groups across Big 8, uk.*, and other
hierarchies do you keep in your subs list due to the good reading they
make?

Most of the ones that do stay OT are near moribund. All the old farts that
still want Usenet need to vent their spleen.

For OT groups on a specific subject, FB etc has taken over. If nothing
else for the ease of posting pics, etc.

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On 13/09/2019 13:30, Roger Hayter wrote:
FMurtz wrote:

pete wrote:
On 13 Sep 2019, Stephen Cole wrote
(in article ):

I'm doing some research for an article and would appreciate any pointers
towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and on-topic. For
example, rec.autos.sport.F1. What groups across Big 8, uk.*, and other
hierarchies do you keep in your subs list due to the good reading they
make?

Ta.

I'm sure there are none. The moment a NG becomes active and popular the
trolls move in and start spamming. It's an almost full time task to keep
up with them and kill files them. This NG, uk.d-i-y is rapidly going
that way. Give it another year and it will be unreadable. pfj


uk.legal is already at that stage

That of course is why, some years ago, ulm was established. But it
does have its disadvantages for wide-ranging discussion.

I suspect that the original poster is being disingenuous and
deliberately misleading in his stated aims, for, having been justifiably
panned for spamming irrelevant comments across several usenet NGs,
he is unable to accept that his attention-seeking is in the wrong and
is seeking to sanitise his own antisocial actions by then claiming
that all NGs are similarly affected.

Do NOT feed the cole troll!

(Cross posts to NGs other than the one I read have been deleted)

On 13/09/2019 07:23, Stephen Cole wrote:
Im doing some research for an article and would appreciate any pointers
towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and on-topic. For
example, rec.autos.sport.F1. What groups across Big 8, uk.*, and other
hierarchies do you keep in your subs list due to the good reading they
make?

Ta.


talk.origins

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On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 14:59:26 +0100, Reentrant wrote:

On 13/09/2019 07:23, Stephen Cole wrote:
Im doing some research for an article and would appreciate any
pointers towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and
on-topic. For example, rec.autos.sport.F1. What groups across Big 8,
uk.*, and other hierarchies do you keep in your subs list due to the
good reading they make?

Ta.


talk.origins

Newsgroups: uk.net.news.management,uk.legal,uk.d-i-y,uk.politics.misc

Thread binned.

Archibald Tarquin Blenkinsopp ESQ [IRL] wrote:
On 13 Sep 2019 06:23:35 GMT, Stephen Cole
wrote:

IÂ’m doing some research for an article and would appreciate any pointers
towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and on-topic. For
example, rec.autos.sport.F1. What groups across Big 8, uk.*, and other
hierarchies do you keep in your subs list due to the good reading they
make?

Ta.

You could try this one.

alt.activism.death-penalty

;-)

Enjoy

LOL. Ta.

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On Friday, 13 September 2019 10:35:29 UTC+1, alan_m wrote:

I do think that some of the posters fixated by politics should give up
listening/viewing any news broadcast and stop reading any newspaper or
similar Internet content for a month. When they resume they may find
that **** all has changed apart from their mental health for the
previous month.

If only!

Ah but remember blind people can't read pictures. I'd not go near Facebook
they are just data harvesters and their interface is awful for blind use.
That is why I like Usenet. text. After all if you really want to send a
pic, you can link it to your cloud storage, and before you suggest these pic
recognition things, they are rubbish. Three men in a boat or a polar bear
all out of the same shot.

Brian

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"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Stephen Cole wrote:
I'm doing some research for an article and would appreciate any pointers
towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and on-topic. For
example, rec.autos.sport.F1. What groups across Big 8, uk.*, and other
hierarchies do you keep in your subs list due to the good reading they
make?

Most of the ones that do stay OT are near moribund. All the old farts that
still want Usenet need to vent their spleen.

For OT groups on a specific subject, FB etc has taken over. If nothing
else for the ease of posting pics, etc.

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On 13/09/2019 09:11, Rod Speed wrote:
Stephen Cole wrote

Im doing some research for an article and would appreciate any pointers
towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and on-topic.

**** all with on topic and it obviously depends on how you define well
used.


uk.music.charts is still regularly used, an on-topic, if not at a high
volume.


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Bod wrote:
On 13/09/2019 11:33, FMurtz wrote:
pete wrote:
On 13 Sep 2019, Stephen Cole wrote
(in article ):

Im doing some research for an article and would appreciate any
pointers
towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and
on-topic. For
example, rec.autos.sport.F1. What groups across Big 8, uk.*, and other
hierarchies do you keep in your subs list due to the good reading they
make?

Ta.

Im sure there are none. The moment a NG becomes active and popular the
trolls move in and start spamming. Its an almost full time task to
keep up
with them and kill files them.
This NG, uk.d-i-y is rapidly going that way. Give it another year and
it will
be unreadable.
pfj


uk.legal is already at that stage

It's not rocket surgery to just ignore the posts you don't like or
killfile if wanted.

But too time consuming to sift 90 percent out and hard to see one line
in the crowd.

On Sat, 14 Sep 2019 16:06:21 +1000
FMurtz wrote:

Bod wrote:


It's not rocket surgery to just ignore the posts you don't like
or
killfile if wanted.

But too time consuming to sift 90 percent out and hard to see one
line in the crowd.

Certainly, the Facebook generation haven't the patience.

U-p-m gets regular blasts of fire-and-forget TDS spam, but it's not
hard to ignore.

--
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On 14 Sep 2019, Huge wrote
(in article ):

On 13/09/2019 09:11, Rod Speed wrote:
Stephen wrote

Jesus, this has dragged the the trolls, troll-baiters (trolls in their own
right) and
weirdos out of the woodwork.

You have certainly proved your own point.

In article ,
Huge wrote:
On 13/09/2019 09:11, Rod Speed wrote:
Stephen Cole wrote

Jesus, this has dragged the the trolls, troll-baiters (trolls in their
own right) and weirdos out of the woodwork.


And those who apparently don't know they're reading and posting to several
groups. ;-)

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"Huge" wrote in message
...
On 13/09/2019 09:11, Rod Speed wrote:
Stephen Cole wrote

Jesus, this has dragged the the trolls, troll-baiters (trolls in their own
right) and
weirdos out of the woodwork.

Yep, you were bound to show up sometime.

On Sun, 15 Sep 2019 00:50:06 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

"Huge" wrote in message
...
On 13/09/2019 09:11, Rod Speed wrote:
Stephen Cole wrote

Jesus, this has dragged the the trolls, troll-baiters (trolls in their own
right) and
weirdos out of the woodwork.

Yep, you were bound to show up sometime.

HE doesn't come across as a troll. You indeed do, and you actually got your
own website dedicated to your senile trolling, you trolling senile asshole
from Oz!

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On Sat, 14 Sep 2019 17:56:15 +0200, Foreskin Peeler
wrote:

[FLUHS Grik skata]...and better air in here again! [sic][SIC!!! LOL]

Watch, it geezer!

I say! That's a little HYPOCRITICAL of you, anus, given YOUR OWN late
night STALKING!

In article ,
sick old nazoid pedo Andrew "Andrzej" Baron (forging as "NEMO") wrote:

[flush]

Here are the facts!

British babes **** on Andrzej
-----------------------------
"You may have something there. This touchy-feely 'New Man' attitude
isn't getting me anywhere. Perhaps I should go for the more basic
Neanderthal approach." -- sick old nazoid pedo Andrew "Andrzej" Baron
(aka "Ron Jacobson"), Message-ID: #1/1.


British babes love Greek dick
-------------------------------
"Nine British women arrested after oral sex competition on Greek island"
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...d-after-318205

On Sat, 14 Sep 2019 09:08:41 -0700, clinically insane, pedophilic, serbian
bitch Razovic, the resident psychopath of sci and scj and Usenet's famous
sexual cripple, making an ass of herself as "NEMO", farted again:

On Sat, 14 Sep 2019 17:56:15 +0200, Foreskin Peeler
wrote:

[FLUHS Grik skata]...and better air in here again! [sic][SIC!!! LOL]

Watch, it geezer!

I say! That's a little HYPOCRITICAL of you, anus, given YOUR OWN late
night STALKING!

I say you are a little bit clinically insane, aren't you, psychopathic
pedophilic dreckserb? BG

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MID:

On 14/09/2019 12:58, Huge wrote:
On 13/09/2019 09:11, Rod Speed wrote:
Stephen Cole wrote

Jesus, this has dragged the the trolls, troll-baiters (trolls in their own right) and
weirdos out of the woodwork.

Hi Hugh,

I'm afraid you'll find little else on usenet politics forums these days.



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On 15 Sep 2019, Vidcapper wrote
(in article ):

On 14/09/2019 12:58, Huge wrote:
On 13/09/2019 09:11, Rod Speed wrote:
Stephen wrote

Jesus, this has dragged the the trolls, troll-baiters (trolls in their own
right) and
weirdos out of the woodwork.

Hi Hugh,

I'm afraid you'll find little else on usenet politics forums these days.

Is that your excuse?

Chronos wrote
Brian Gaff wrote

I'd not go near Facebook they are just data harvesters

That's bull****. The groups leave the alternatives for dead.

This, in a nutshell.

In a dog turd, actually.

It's also reinventing the wheel.

Even sillier than you usually manage and that's saying something.

Take Slack, for example, which is just IRC with a fancy interface
and horribly centralised infrastructure, monetised to death. You
could do exactly the same thing with a well tended XMPP server
and a few plugins, minus the irritations.

But no one would would know about it like they do with Facebook.

Personally, I don't see the appeal of
these newer communications portals.

Yep, you actually are that stupid.

It just feels like the basic transfer of information
these days has to be dressed up in useless chrome
and flashing ads before it gains any legitimacy at all,

Its actually about doing it in a way that most are aware of and find useful.

so much so that the information itself
becomes secondary, almost an afterthought.

Even sillier than you usually manage and that's saying something.

People who not only don't need but cannot
use all of that have been quietly sidelined.

Even sillier than you usually manage and that's saying something.

All of that is before we even mention the
intrusive monitoring and Big Data wallahs.

Trivial to avoid any of that.

On Sun, 15 Sep 2019 19:00:55 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

FLUSH the trolling senile asshole's latest troll****

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In article ,
Huge wrote:
On 2019-09-14, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Huge wrote:
On 13/09/2019 09:11, Rod Speed wrote:
Stephen Cole wrote

Jesus, this has dragged the the trolls, troll-baiters (trolls in their
own right) and weirdos out of the woodwork.


And those who apparently don't know they're reading and posting to
several groups. ;-)

I'm well aware which groups I'm posting to, Oh patronising one.

Sorry for thinking you made a mistake rather than doing what you are
complaining of others doing.

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On 15 Sep 2019 11:38:10 GMT, Huge wrote:

On 2019-09-15, Vidcapper wrote:
On 14/09/2019 12:58, Huge wrote:
On 13/09/2019 09:11, Rod Speed wrote:
Stephen Cole wrote

Jesus, this has dragged the the trolls, troll-baiters (trolls in their own right) and
weirdos out of the woodwork.

Hi Hugh,

I'm afraid you'll find little else on usenet politics forums these days.

"These days"? ) I've been on Usenet for likely over 30 years (CBA to work it
out) and the politics groups have always been loony attractors.

you're no loony...you're just a miserable old curmudgeon...

always have been and i expect you always will be

you don't have enough personality to be loony


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