On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:30:09 -0800, sf > wrote:

>On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:57:52 -0500, "cybercat" >
>wrote:
>
>>The nature of news groups includes thread drift. Accounts of the impending
>>demise of Usenet are highly exaggerated.
>
>The demise of usenet will come not from within. It will come because
>of ISPs dropping it and the advent of online forums that are easier
>for the uninitiated to find.

As usual you're spewing garbage. The demise in quality is largely
because of google idiots. As ISP's drop usenet or binaries serious
users will just have to pay for it or resort to google. For once I
agree with cyberloon as usenet isn't going away any time soon.

Lou