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Blinky the Shark Blinky the Shark is offline
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Theron wrote:

> I've noticed in the past month or so that less are posting on this, and
> other large broad subject NGs. And, the spam content is up. Is this due to
> the major ISPs stopping USENET as part of your subscription. Could this be
> the end of wide interest large usegroups such as ours. It's unfortunate. I
> wish there was a solution to this.


On the other side of the coin, such a culling does reduce the number of
users who aren't even clued enough about the medium to simply use another
news server.


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