I?m doing some research for an article and would appreciate any pointers towards groups that are still, in 2019, well-trafficked and on-topic. For example, rec.autos.sport.F1. What groups across Big 8, uk.*, and other hierarchies do you keep in your subs list due to the good reading they make?
Ta.
You could try this one.
alt.activism.death-penalty
;-)
Enjoy
AB
On 13 Sep 2019, Stephen Cole wrote (in article ):
I?m sure there are none. The moment a NG becomes active and popular the trolls move in and start spamming. It?s an almost full time task to keep up with them and kill files them. This NG, uk.d-i-y is rapidly going that way. Give it another year and it will be unreadable. pfj
That very much depends on the user, surely? OK you can kill file people, but as text is such a low memory eating system, most of the time you just pick the threads that interest you just as you would because of topics on topic which do not interest you. I think the worst ones are those where the advertisers spam the groups, dealing with people paranoid about politics or whatever does not worry me in the slightest, if you let it do so you would never read anything on the internet due to adverts and click through links etc. Brian
Also the rise of search engines and forum sites has made Usenet a bit redundant for 'i need help' inquiries.
The only saving grace is that its is the one place that is not censored by anyone but its participants.
Which is why UK.d-i-y is highly political right now. Where else can you have freedom of speech?
I was going to, tongue-in-cheek, say alt.test but having had a quick look I'm not sure even that is the case any more! ;-)
I do think that some of the posters fixated by politics should give up listening/viewing any news broadcast and stop reading any newspaper or similar Internet content for a month. When they resume they may find that f*ck all has changed apart from their mental health for the previous month.
In non uk.* hierarchies I have seen a few+ NG unable to survive pre-election surge of NTG political spam. It won't kill uk.politics.misc! ;-)
uk.legal is already at that stage
That of course is why, some years ago, ulm was established. But it does have its disadvantages for wide-ranging discussion.
Didn't someone say, quite wisely: "Put politics in command!" What is more important?
Stephen Cole brought next idea :
uk.people.consumers.ebay
What was that criticism that you laid at my door for replying to all NGs without deleting the crossposts?
Physician (literally), heal thyself!
Most of the ones that do stay OT are near moribund. All the old farts that still want Usenet need to vent their spleen.
For OT groups on a specific subject, FB etc has taken over. If nothing else for the ease of posting pics, etc.
I suspect that the original poster is being disingenuous and deliberately misleading in his stated aims, for, having been justifiably panned for spamming irrelevant comments across several usenet NGs, he is unable to accept that his attention-seeking is in the wrong and is seeking to sanitise his own antisocial actions by then claiming that all NGs are similarly affected.
Do NOT feed the cole troll!
(Cross posts to NGs other than the one I read have been deleted)
talk.origins
Newsgroups: uk.net.news.management,uk.legal,uk.d-i-y,uk.politics.misc
Thread binned.
LOL. Ta.
If only!
Ah but remember blind people can't read pictures. I'd not go near Facebook they are just data harvesters and their interface is awful for blind use. That is why I like Usenet. text. After all if you really want to send a pic, you can link it to your cloud storage, and before you suggest these pic recognition things, they are rubbish. Three men in a boat or a polar bear all out of the same shot.
Brian
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