-=> fusion wrote to Accession <=-
Ac> Either way, I recently created an account on eternal-september.org and
Ac> subscribed to a bunch of newsgroups (BBS related, 2600 related, Fido
Ac> (even Russian fido7 newsgroups) related) to see if there was any
Ac> activity there. Usenet as a whole seems fairly dead, unfortunately.
fu> yeah.. unfortunately you'd have to subscribe to *everything* for about
fu> a month to know where activity is. it'll be empty and then there will
fu> be 40 people posting..
fu> the slackware one comes alive about every other week,
fu> alt.folklore.computers blows up randomly.. the C and C++ ones in a
fu> month or so have more message volume than all the bbs message nets
fu> combined for a year probably (you wouldn't know it's not 1993 in there)
fu> .. i don't think i'd want that high of volume going through a bbs
fu> though..
Some of the Linux-distro-specific ones have some useable content in
them, with some included garbage posts. Also a couple of ebook-related
ones are active.
... Toto, I don't think we're in DOS any more...
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