Re: We're in the top ten!

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 15:19 this Wednesday (GMT):

On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 15:04:53 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
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Most of that google trafic wasn't legit.  Probably only me and the 3rd
to last person in alt.dreams who just dropped it after.

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Yeah. It should be pointed out that quoted stats only apply to big-8
newsgroups, so all of the traffic in the ALT.* hierachy isn't counted.
And there /are/ some quite active newsgroups
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      [Well, "active" from the perspective of 2025, not 1994]
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in the ALT.* hierarchy that have nothing to do with porn or binaries.
So the rjk spoolstats aren't a complete picture.
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But even if they triple the current "legitimate" (e.g., not stuff
that's likely to get a Usenet server shut-down) traffic, that's still
an insignificant number of users and traffic compared to any other
forum service.
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CSIPGA was actually fairly lucky with regards to google-groups spam
(well, at least until the end when we got an unusual amount of it). I
don't know if it's just that this group wasn't worth targeting, or if
the spam-filters were working, but most of what we saw from google was
the errant user responding to a twenty-year old post. Which was sort
of fun in its own right, since it gave us something new (old!) to talk
about ;-)
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It's actually been too much for me to read everything since I got busy
in October.

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Well, there's the problem. Put aside all those other things that are
keeping you from Usenet. You gotta set your priorities, people! ;-)

I feel that too, I've kinda been going thru a depression and seeing 400
new posts is insane
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