Re: Current top myths about Usenet

Steve Bonine <[email protected]> wrote:

> Paul W. Schleck wrote:
> > 1. Google owns Usenet
> > 
> > 2. When Google Groups stops archiving Usenet articles later this month,
> >     Usenet will go away
> > 
> > 3. Existing active Usenet discussion newsgroups must move to another
> >     forum now, or be lost
> > 
> > 4. There is no discussion on Usenet anymore
> > 
> > 5. There are no moderated newsgroups on Usenet
> > 
> > 6. Usenet costs a lot of money, and is technically difficult, to access
> 
> And which mythical god has anointed these as "current" and "top"?
>

If indeed it is the real PWS writing above, he is the person responsible
for swamping rec.radio.* with reposted blogs to the exclusion of real
discussion, thereby killing that set of groups.

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