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  • Is this newsgroup, or all of rec.games, stalled

    From John Dallman@21:1/5 to Will in New Haven on Thu Nov 21 20:07:00 2019
    In article <f6f290c9-043e-4d5e-a1fb-6988f58d2406@googlegroups.com>, willinnewhaven969@gmail.com (Will in New Haven) wrote:

    I know that usenet is getting very quiet but nothing, including the
    views, has changed here or on rec.games.bridge in days.

    Usenet still has active groups here and there, but I'm seeing no more
    traffic here than you.

    John

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  • From Will in New Haven@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 21 11:19:51 2019
    I know that usenet is getting very quiet but nothing, including the views, has changed here or on rec.games.bridge in days.

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  • From Ralph Glatt@21:1/5 to Will in New Haven on Fri Nov 22 05:44:44 2019
    On Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 2:19:52 PM UTC-5, Will in New Haven wrote:
    I know that usenet is getting very quiet but nothing, including the views, has changed here or on rec.games.bridge in days.

    Everybody pretty much migrated to other media, like chatrooms and social media websites. I'd be surprised to find that anyone still knows about usenet anymore.

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  • From Will in New Haven@21:1/5 to Ralph Glatt on Sun Nov 24 09:57:46 2019
    On Friday, November 22, 2019 at 8:44:45 AM UTC-5, Ralph Glatt wrote:
    On Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 2:19:52 PM UTC-5, Will in New Haven wrote:
    I know that usenet is getting very quiet but nothing, including the views, has changed here or on rec.games.bridge in days.

    Everybody pretty much migrated to other media, like chatrooms and social media websites. I'd be surprised to find that anyone still knows about usenet anymore.

    Until very recently, the "viewed" count on recent messages was climbing, albeit slowly, although no new messages were appearing. Now the "viewed" count is static. That seemed weird.

    Bill

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  • From John Dallman@21:1/5 to Will in New Haven on Sun Nov 24 20:13:00 2019
    In article <31562b65-7af3-4135-a043-52a4f273974c@googlegroups.com>, willinnewhaven969@gmail.com (Will in New Haven) wrote:

    Until very recently, the "viewed" count on recent messages was
    climbing, albeit slowly, although no new messages were appearing.
    Now the "viewed" count is static. That seemed weird.

    What was calculating these counts? Usenet has no method of doing that
    globally. If Google Groups was doing it, that would not include anyone
    who used any other means of access.

    John

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  • From Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)@21:1/5 to Will in New Haven on Sun Nov 24 17:00:53 2019
    On 11/21/19 2:19 PM, Will in New Haven wrote:
    I know that usenet is getting very quiet but nothing, including the views, has changed here or on rec.games.bridge in days.


    Rec.games.frp.dnd has a low but fairly steady volume of traffic. This group (.misc) was always the lower volume group.



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  • From Ralph Glatt@21:1/5 to Will in New Haven on Mon Nov 25 07:48:26 2019
    On Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 2:19:52 PM UTC-5, Will in New Haven wrote:
    I know that usenet is getting very quiet but nothing, including the views, has changed here or on rec.games.bridge in days.

    This newsgroup got a few Shadowrun posts a while back. Other than that, nothing.

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  • From Stephen Frost@21:1/5 to Will in New Haven on Thu Dec 5 15:50:45 2019
    In message <f6f290c9-043e-4d5e-a1fb-6988f58d2406@googlegroups.com>
    Will in New Haven <willinnewhaven969@gmail.com> wrote:

    I know that usenet is getting very quiet but nothing, including the views, has changed here or on rec.games.bridge in days.

    Unfortunately true. Some parts are still alive but I'm guessing most of
    those coming online 'recently' don't even know it exists. I'm still
    undecided as to whether that's a good or bad thing.

    At least we're spared twitterstorms and pics of 'Me and other people
    having a burger' ad nauseum.

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  • From Ralph Glatt@21:1/5 to Stephen Frost on Thu Dec 5 08:47:06 2019
    On Thursday, December 5, 2019 at 11:09:10 AM UTC-5, Stephen Frost wrote:
    In message <f6f290c9-043e-4d5e-a1fb-6988f58d2406@googlegroups.com>
    Will in New Haven <willinnewhaven969@gmail.com> wrote:

    I know that usenet is getting very quiet but nothing, including the views, has changed here or on rec.games.bridge in days.

    Unfortunately true. Some parts are still alive but I'm guessing most of
    those coming online 'recently' don't even know it exists. I'm still
    undecided as to whether that's a good or bad thing.

    At least we're spared twitterstorms and pics of 'Me and other people
    having a burger' ad nauseum.

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    Sig. under development - maybe

    Back in 2004, I knew a girl who thought the web was the internet. I tried to explain that it's a lot more, but she didn't seem interested.

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