Re: We're in the top ten!

On Tue, 31 Dec 2024 17:23:23 -0000 (UTC), rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
(Ross Ridge) wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson  <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

** Seriously, the fall-off for Usenet is depressing. According to the
above stats, in the last 7 days, in ALL of the groups monitored, there
were only 949 articles in total and even at the most OPTIMISTIC count,
less than 1000 users who actually post. It almost makes me wish Google
would re-implement their newsfeed again...

>
Just think of how awesome it would be to a have a BBS with those nummbers.

There was a period when I had to access Usenet through a BBS.
_Finding_ a BBS that offered the service was a challenge enough. But
using it was different than I normally did. You'd download the latest
updates to the spool, then go offline to compose your messages, then
have to reconnect to send your comments. Which doesn't sound that bad,
except Usenet was so busy that in the time that you spent offline
thinking up a response, another 500 posts got added to the spool. ;-)

You really had to pick-n-choose your threads back then.