Posts in this NG appear to have all but dried up in the last few days - unless my news server is just not showing them for some reason?
Where is everyone?
May 06, 2026
Last reply: 2 months ago
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No, I've checked with two different servers. Too many people in hospital after the bank holiday.
Busy sorting out their gardens?
My current d-i-y problem is sorting out an electrical/electronic issue with my VW B6 Passat estate!
>74 posts in past week, down a bit compared to usual ...
FlyMow toes ??? :-)
It has been quieter certainly...
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Especially compared to the 6k+/month at its height...
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Usenet groups are dying. Only kept going by old fogeys. Kids today know nothing about Usenet. Sad, but kinda inevitable. We are a dying generation, literally.
Tim
I blame it on us wealthy pensioners not bothering to DIY, but just spending the kid's inheritance on a buying a new one.
(OK. I'm neither wealthy nor have kids - but the rest is totally accurate!)
I have Eternal September as my news server, and it has had a number of days lately when I don't see any new headers and I can't get the bodies for the headers I can see.
The end is nigh.
UK.USNET stats.
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And the rest.
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Brian
You can just about see a small step change around Feb 24 when google ceased acting as a usenet gateway - but not as sharp as I would have expected. (Although that might just be lack of resolution in the chart)
Yup, not encouraging is it?
NIN coming to an end in a year or so.
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Do you want some of mine?
Wealth? (He enquired hopefully)
Wealth or kids?
My guess is Kids
It would be more tolerable if there was somewhere else sensible to go. It's all got diluted with so many platforms littered with inane posts. I thought I'd try QUORA as an alternative to Usenet but what a mess.
uk.legal has been unuseable for years.
I use(d) DPReview for photography but that wrote its own death sentence a couple of years back and hasn't recovered.
There is so little gravitas or expertise available anywhere, or if there is, please say, meanwhile I'm resorting to ChatGPT but even on one legal question it merely churned up a post from uk.legal.moderated as being THE answer. Worrying.
There used to be a dowry for taking a girl off the parents' hands. Less common now, but we could haggle.
That is being kind.
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