Comments on: Did blogging kill Usenet?

By: lambic

lambic — Mon, 02 May 2005 13:09:13 +0000

Thanks to people like Chris Lewis (a Canadian!), Scott Hazen Mueller, David Wright and many others who have campaigned against spam since the early 90s, the spam problem is nowhere near as bad as it could be.

Only about 20% of Usenet content is actual content, with 40% being spam and 40% being spam cancels. Most anti-spammers acknowledge that 95% of the alt. hierarchy is beyond redemption, completely overrun with spam. They still manage to keep the core newsgroups relatively spam free though.

By: Shawn Campbell

Shawn Campbell — Mon, 02 May 2005 00:38:13 +0000

Spam totally killed usenet for me. Before the spam it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Then one day I realized that I had spend 2 hours trying to find content amonst the spam, and I never returned. Very, very sad.
Perhaps some day Google will find a way to weed it out and get us the good stuff.
Sad.

By: J?ri Kaljundi

J?ri Kaljundi — Sun, 01 May 2005 11:26:06 +0000

Thirteen years on the Internet

Blogging and social networks are quite similar, just more advanced, to what USENET, newsgroups and mailing lists were in 1992-1993. Many people still read and write to newsgroups, but it is a dying breed, which I feel a pity about. But as blogging de…

By: jen

jen — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 18:10:13 +0000

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