nicholas peter dempsey wrote:
In article ,
I have noticed a sever shortage of good beer groups on Usenet. Do you think
this is because there are too many so the participants are too scattered or
are people just not interested in beer?

Usenet is dying. Folks are much more interested in web forums. Check out
RateBeer.com, BeerAdvocate.com, the Burgundian Babble Belt, etc. for
more active discussions.

More active, certainly. More useful? I'd argue not. There's
even more anonymity, there's more dilution of good, informed
information, and now the biggest ("most active") sites are run by
the kind of people whose egos prevented them from spewing over
USENET without being called on it. (Some more so than others,
of course.) You get much, much more noise with the signal.
I still get more useful information from people whose opinions
I trust from USENET.
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Joel Plutchak plutchak@[...] | Boneyard Union of Zymurgical Zealots

"I don't like beer. I tried it once and thought it was terrible."
- Overheard at a restaurant