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cshenk

Travis McGee wrote in rec.food.cooking:

> On 4/14/2014 3:11 PM, wrote:
> > On Sunday, April 13, 2014 12:05:15 PM UTC-7, Kalmia wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > > On Friday, November 18, 1994 4:49:24 PM UTC+1, Dan Masi wrote:
> > >
> > > > > > In article , (Anne
> > > > > > Bourget) writes:
> > >
> > > > > > > Sorry, but I lost the thread on this one. [...] But these
> > > > > > > are the kind of questions some of us like in
> > > > > > > rec.food.cooking. This is certainly a Dan Masi question
> > > > > > > to be answered. (Dan...did you?)
> > >
> >
> > > Well, I wondered about all the unfamiliar names. I am surprised
> > > one can even reply to anything that ancient. Glad you pointed
> > > out the 94 date.
> >
> > Anne Bourget was a very familiar name. some 15 years ago. And I do
> > recall posts from Dan Masi. But whatever happened to the Women of
> > Usenet? Ron Sullivan, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq., et al.?
> > They were indefatigable posters until they suddenly quit, more than
> > a decade ago.
> >
>
> I first got on USENET back in the early 90s via a free service, and
> later Supernews, but dropped it when Supernews hiked the price, and I
> found that I wasn't seeing a lot of legitimate traffic, not enough to
> justify the price. This was a few years back, maybe four.
>
> I recently found that my new ISP allowed free access, so I got back
> on a few months ago. I knew USENET was dying, but I was shocked
> nonetheless; some of the previously most active groups that I had
> monitored, for instance alt.true-crime, were almost completely dead,
> outside of the spam and trolls.
>
> I asked a few still-active posters about this, and one of the
> interesting answers was that a lot of services had dropped USENET
> access due to fear of lawsuits, particularly concerning some of the
> stuff being posted to the binary groups. Their opinion was that, in
> addition to the spam, this is what eliminated so many users.

Hi Travis,

As the providers dropped it, many left. I'm here still but a bit
sporadic.

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