Re: So, how do we get this place more lively?

In article <vvlogg$308rh$2@dont-email.me>, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

Sebastian P. <info@cornica.org> wrote:
 

Any ideas? Let's brainstorm! :-)

 
More posts. ;)

This is very much a truism of Usenet; if you want to see activity in a
group, get posting! It will often lead to replies, as this thread
demonstrates!

Usenet has been in a long decline for a long time, but it'll still be
around for a good long time yet - even after the hobbyist/free servers go
offline I reckon the commercial binaries/warez-focused servers will
persist as long as there is money to be made.

Retro-computing has exploded over the last decade and I've often argued
that Usenet is the perfect venue for us obsessives to put our old gear to
productive use using period software that works just as well with the
medium as it did 30 years ago! I do subscribe to a bunch of groups and
regularly read them on this PowerMac G4 but I'm only in the habit of
regularly posting to rec.autos.sport.f1. I should take my own advice and
get posting elsewhere more often!

Re comp.sys.mac.vintage, it does feel like a shame that there are
communities on the web with hundreds (maybe thousands in some cases) of
Macintosh enthusiasts posting regularly but none of them motivated enough
to fire up Usenet on their olde Macs and show up here. I doubt there's
much we can do to bring them here, other than mention it from time to time
and see if we can plant some seeds.