Re: End of an era.

In article <h4l9ev$v34$1@news.eternal-september.org>, Fernando Nunes says... > >Koya wrote: > >> In my earlier post I said "Back in 1999 and 2000 when I signed up for >> IIUG emails". Actually I mean to say that Google group emails. Sorry. >> >> --Chavan > >That looks more consistent with reality. >But it would be fair to also say that usenet is dying... Even our Oracle "spy" >has given up on this... People are choosing other channels to communicate. This is true. You should see the state of non technical newsgroups. They are much worse than technical ngs. Almost all of them I use to be active 10 yrs ago are dead now. People have found blogs, comments section of news article as the place to rant. Spams also contributed to the demise of newsgroups.