Re: looking for groups

On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 11:18:47 -0300, Ethan Carter
<ec1828@somewhere.edu> wrote:

Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> writes:

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

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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.

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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.

I've been on Usenet for about 35 years. It was at its best for the
first 5 of those, when my access was mainly through Fidonet. Back then
Usenet was mostly academic, and Usenet purists despised the hoi polloi
who sneaked in through the Fidonet gateway, and most of them left when
GoogleGroups began to be gated and the spammers took over.

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

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