message volume

It isn't just this group. Newsgroups in general, have dropped off in recent years. Spammers, trolls, politics, etc. have taken their toll.

All Clinton's fault.

It has dropped significantly below pre 06/24/2008 levels.

Lew

I subscribe to over 20 newsgroups and all of them have reduced activity. I have been using newsgroups since 1989. Back then there were very few spammers, floods, and off-topic posts. With some newsgroups I have dropped them in favor of moderated forums, although the responses can be quite slow.

Right on!

Which one?

B.

"Lew Hodgett" wrote in news:uSNck.678$HY.470 @trnddc01:

Yep, another Verizon man. Hang in there, Lew!

Yep, significant decrease in traffic. Part of the reason could be fallout from the large amount of OT posted over the last year or so.

My guess is that many dorkers switched over to Vito's group where there are no posts about smelly tools.

George

But, if you drop the spam flood that we had out of the numbers, it hasn't dropped nearly as much..

mac

Please remove splinters before emailing

What ISP were you us>

newsgroups were around a LONG time before isp's were. back then it was usenet, with computers passing around newsgroup traffic between them. i've been using email since 1973, newsgroups since about 1985 or so, long before isp's were around.

regards, charlie cave creek, az

What email were you using in 1973?

i worked for the air force in the pentagon doing studies about this newfangled thing called the arpanet in conjunction with sri, who were in california. i worked on a system called multics, and can remember when the number of sites on the arpanet was numbered by the handful. i did one of the first studies on using this odd looking thing called a mouse (and also a chord keyboard) doing intercontinental document editing, to see if the response time was usable across the arpanet at what was then great distances. my office then got a new computer, a dec 11/45, and loaded up unix license #7 for investigation. i can remember when the first routers (called tips) were about the size of large refrigerators.

if you've seen the cringley tv show on the start of the internet, i was involved in a lot of that early hardware.

regards, charlie cave creek, az

It could also be that Google groups is not working correctly. I posted the above early this morning (0700 hrs) and it didn't show in google until after 1400 hrs.

I'm going to try and re-establish a connection through Comcast since they recently bought my non-newsgroup ISP.

You are surely referring to either colleges and/or military. I have been the computing business for

charlie wrote:

Ahhhh - I know multics well. A Honeywell/GE operating system - very favored by the US Govt.

I was not aware that multics had an email capability.

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