In article <
18106aaa-e97a-4195...@googlegroups.com>,
scattered <
resca...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Friday, October 12, 2012 10:15:08 AM UTC-4, gathring wrote:
>> On 10/10/2012 2:48 PM, Ivan Kryakutnoy wrote: > no one here much anymore?=
>?? > Ivan > another quiet time i think
>
>I worry that the quietness could be permanent this time. Usenet groups seem=
> to have a "tipping point" where they rapidly fade after traffic falls belo=
>w a certain threshhold. My impression has been that asd has been hovering j=
>ust above its tipping point the last couple of years - especially when the =
>relative lack of newcomers is taken into account. Too many blogs, online fo=
>rums, etc. out there now competing with Usenet. For every newbie who would =
I would agree but I can't see the appeal of the other places. ASD
seems to work very well in what it does and I have never found another
place that works this way. My assumption is that it is harder and
harder for people to find ASD in the first place :(
>discover asd there would probably be a dozen who discover e.g. the Psycholo=
>gy and Mental Health Forum (which has an active DID sub-forum which regular=
>ly attracts new posters). I'd hate to see them go the way of the dinosaurs,=
> but Usenet groups in general are an endangered species in today's internet=
> world.
>
>-scattered
True, at least we haven't filled up with spam :P We lost ASAR to spam
years ago *grr*