So that's where the group went...

Rast

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Jan 28, 2013, 9:54:34 PM1/28/13

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https://plus.google.com/communities/109120452912922980865

A lot of the members have familiar names. Not sure why they decided that
Google's... thing was better than good old usenet.

Novak's review:

https://plus.google.com/113994096154965042202/posts

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purple, crowned with withered vine-leaves and gazing ahead as if upon the
golden domes of a fair city where dreams are understood. That night
something of youth and beauty died in the elder world. - H P Lovecraft

Chucky @ Work

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Feb 25, 2013, 9:13:41 AM2/25/13

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On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:54:34 -0500, Rast <ra...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Novak's review:
>
>https://plus.google.com/113994096154965042202/posts

Yeah, let me get right onto reading that.

*whittles own penis into a point and then pokes own eyes out with it,
instead*

- C@w

*titter* What? Grow up? Never.
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Jasper Janssen

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Apr 9, 2013, 6:40:54 PM4/9/13

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On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 3:54:34 AM UTC+1, Rast wrote:
> https://plus.google.com/communities/109120452912922980865
> A lot of the members have familiar names. Not sure why they decided that
> Google's... thing was better than good old usenet.

We all drifted away from usenet *long* before google+. The people mostly reconstituted back on Livejournal, and most of us have now moved to G+.

Jasper

Rast

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Apr 9, 2013, 11:24:59 PM4/9/13

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Jasper Janssen wrote...

> We all drifted away from usenet *long* before google+.

But why?

Ilya the Recusant

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Apr 13, 2013, 7:33:53 PM4/13/13

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Time? Effort? Interest? Who knows.

Me, I still prefer usenet.

Ilya

Ilya the Recusant

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Chucky & Janica

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Apr 14, 2013, 3:28:33 AM4/14/13

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On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:33:53 +1000, Ilya the Recusant
<ilya...@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> We all drifted away from usenet *long* before google+.
>>
>>But why?
>
>Time? Effort? Interest? Who knows.
>
>Me, I still prefer usenet.

Usenet isn't moderated. On LiveJournal and Google+, their killfiles
could work the way they always liked to pretend they did, instead of
the way they worked in a truly open forum, which basically amounted to
the killfiler sticking his fingers in his ears and looking like a
douche incapable of debate.

C&J

Ilya the Recusant

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Apr 14, 2013, 5:31:53 AM4/14/13

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Upside is: it's a reminder of how much a douche one was, which would
hopefully keep one from reverting to old ways.

Downside is: if you were a douche and then stopped being a douche,
years later, someone could find posts from the douchy period.

>C&J

Chucky & Janica

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Apr 14, 2013, 10:56:58 AM4/14/13

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On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:31:53 +1000, Ilya the Recusant
<ilya...@gmail.com> wrote:

>>Usenet isn't moderated. On LiveJournal and Google+, their killfiles
>>could work the way they always liked to pretend they did, instead of
>>the way they worked in a truly open forum, which basically amounted to
>>the killfiler sticking his fingers in his ears and looking like a
>>douche incapable of debate.
>
>Upside is: it's a reminder of how much a douche one was, which would
>hopefully keep one from reverting to old ways.

I'm sure that would work. Sadly, I haven't had much luck searching
Google groups lately. They used to have a good system but they
new-look-and-feel'd it to death a few years back. No more trawling the
archives and reliving good times during my lunch breaks. I don't think
the advanced search function even exists anymore.

Best I've been able to manage is googling for a certain phrase, poster
handle, and the newsgroup name. Thread name if I can remember it.
Posts turn up in the weirdest places and on the weirdest pages, funny
to think of where all this stuff spreads to. People scoop them up and
use them across the web.

Maybe another reason people abandoned usenet. Not a good reason in my
book.

>Downside is: if you were a douche and then stopped being a douche,
>years later, someone could find posts from the douchy period.

Or one's wife might have a huge text archive of said posts, and write
a huge history of the newsgroup with them as source material.

C&J

Michelle Haines

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Apr 21, 2013, 9:32:45 PM4/21/13

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On Sunday, April 14, 2013 8:56:58 AM UTC-6, Chucky & Janica wrote:
>
> Maybe another reason people abandoned usenet. Not a good reason in my
>

I know at least one other reason was that extended period where many newsgroups were simply spam-bombed to death. People got out of the habit of paying attention to newsgroups because they were unreadable, and when you fill that space with other habits, its hard to put it back together.

Chucky @ Work

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Apr 22, 2013, 2:44:21 AM4/22/13

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That's certainly true. It's taken me a while to get back into the
swing of this. Totally worth it though.

And now at least the spam seems to have dried up.

C@w