Re: looking for groups

Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> writes:

On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:11:15 -0300, Ethan Carter
<ec1828@somewhere.edu> wrote:
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Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> writes:
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On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 21:51:03 -0300, Ethan Carter
<ec1828@somewhere.edu> wrote:

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I'm also looking for a group on economics.  I'd like to ask questions
and learn a bit from people who study it.  We have sci.econ, but it
looks dead on Eternal September.

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Crosspost to other groups that seem to deal with economics, and see if
anyone replies.

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There doesn't seem to be other groups.  I don't think investment, for
example, has much to do with economics.

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Well I did find these:
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alt.economics.austrian-school
alt.economics.miroslav-verbic

I bet they're dead.  (I've already posted.  I'd have to post a new
article just to invite people to read a previous one.)

One of the strange things about Usenet is that people seem to rush to
start very narrowly specialised newsgroups, when there are not enough
general ones, or even when there are general groups, there is not
enough traffic in them to justify a more specialised one.

How long have you been on the USENET?  It used to have a lot of traffic.
Deleting groups seems to be a very hard thing to do.  But, yes, the fact
that these above belong to the alt node, they might have been created in
an experimental impulse.

In any case, thanks very much for bringing these groups to my attention.