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Is Usenet dying here, I do notice the number of post now are way way down.


Why do we Only have some 44 News Groups when Australia has some 236...?



My be people here need to pull they finger out and do some thing about it..



To me New Zealand should be ashamed of it self with such a poor list, is this why we have a poor
crappy Internet service here..

May be we need a Magazine or Paper supporting Usenet, like Net Guide, how about a Usenet guide, all
the People that I know that use the Internet no Nothing at all about Usenet..?

Articles about Internet in Magazine, Radio and TV here, never mention Usenet..


Some thing needs to be done for we totally loose it here..

Ken wrote:
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> Is Usenet dying here, I do notice the number of post now are way way down.
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> Why do we Only have some 44 News Groups when Australia has some 236...?
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> My be people here need to pull they finger out and do some thing about it..
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> To me New Zealand should be ashamed of it self with such a poor list, is this why we have a poor
> crappy Internet service here..
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> May be we need a Magazine or Paper supporting Usenet, like Net Guide, how about a Usenet guide, all
> the People that I know that use the Internet no Nothing at all about Usenet..?
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> Articles about Internet in Magazine, Radio and TV here, never mention Usenet..
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> Some thing needs to be done for we totally loose it here..
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You and David Murray killed it long ago with your idiot flaming

Ken wrote:

> May be we need a Magazine or Paper supporting Usenet, like Net Guide, how about a Usenet guide, all
> the People that I know that use the Internet no Nothing at all about Usenet..?
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> Articles about Internet in Magazine, Radio and TV here, never mention Usenet..

Forums seem to be the way of the future. I reckon they're crap theres
always a log of garbage onscreen (pictures, emoticons, ads, etc...)
usenet is simple fast and efficient. Hardly anyone I know has heard of
usenet either... sigh

ttb

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Once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes
turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you long to return.

"ttb" <> wrote in message
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> Forums seem to be the way of the future. I reckon they're crap theres
> always a log of garbage onscreen (pictures, emoticons, ads, etc...) usenet
> is simple fast and efficient. Hardly anyone I know has heard of usenet
> either... sigh

Ive been using Usenet for quite sometime, and yeah, the number AND quality
of posts has fallen a lot in the past few years.

I run forums off my site but theres only a small number of regulars - the
net is flooded with forums since anyone can run one.

<Ken > wrote in message
news:...
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No, the people who write trash have pulled out...

Ken wrote:
> Is Usenet dying here, I do notice the number of post now are way way
> down.
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> Why do we Only have some 44 News Groups when Australia has some
> 236...?


Most people don't know about Usenet. NZ ISP's that have news servers don't
advertise the fact.

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A) There are too many cross-posting idiots.
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Shaun.

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On Sun, 13 May 2007 11:17:26 +1200, Ken wrote:
>Why do we Only have some 44 News Groups when Australia has some 236...?

It's because we have 4 million people and Australia has 25 million
people, stupid. So the news group ratio is just what you'd expect.

<Ken > wrote in message
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> Is Usenet dying here, I do notice the number of post now are way way down.
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> Why do we Only have some 44 News Groups when Australia has some 236...?
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> My be people here need to pull they finger out and do some thing about
> it..
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> To me New Zealand should be ashamed of it self with such a poor list, is
> this why we have a poor
> crappy Internet service here..
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> May be we need a Magazine or Paper supporting Usenet, like Net Guide, how
> about a Usenet guide, all
> the People that I know that use the Internet no Nothing at all about
> Usenet..?
>
> Articles about Internet in Magazine, Radio and TV here, never mention
> Usenet..
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> Some thing needs to be done for we totally loose it here..
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Since the major isps such as telcom removed their news servers, there has
been a big drop of people using it.

On Sun, 13 May 2007 11:17:26 +1200, Ken wrote:

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>Is Usenet dying here, I do notice the number of post now are way way down.
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>Why do we Only have some 44 News Groups when Australia has some 236...?
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>
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>My be people here need to pull they finger out and do some thing about it..
>
>
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>To me New Zealand should be ashamed of it self with such a poor list, is this why we have a poor
>crappy Internet service here..
>
>May be we need a Magazine or Paper supporting Usenet, like Net Guide, how about a Usenet guide, all
>the People that I know that use the Internet no Nothing at all about Usenet..?
>
>Articles about Internet in Magazine, Radio and TV here, never mention Usenet..
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>Some thing needs to be done for we totally loose it here..


There is a process for getting new groups established (see
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/crea...sgroups/part1/)

All you need to do is persuade enough people to vote for each and
every new group you propose. As the rules say

if 100 more valid YES/create votes are received than NO/don't
create AND at least 2/3 of the total number of valid votes received
are in favor of creation, a newgroup control message may be sent
out. If the 100 vote margin or 2/3 percentage is not met, the group
should not be created.


Simple really. However, what NZ specific topics do you need to discuss
that you can't already? The quality of USENET is bugger all to do
with the number of groups IMO. It is more to do with how many genuine
contributors there are, how well they can stay within the charter of
thge group and how little cross posting can happen. Of the nearly
100,000 groups worldwide, how many of them are empty and unused apart
from spammers and trolls?