From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-11
On Thu, 8/28/2025 4:32 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:
I've heard it bandied around for years that Usenet is fading fast; just a few old-timers hanging in here.
But look at these statistics; https://www.newsdemon.com/usenet-newsgroup-feed-size
Someone has told me it's only spam on the increase.
I belong to very few NGs, but in those there's a fair size of good, sensible questions and answers. Very noticeable in the Win10 and Win11 NGs.
And, I suppose, Eternal-september has decent spam-filters; so I don't see the worst of it.
The ironic thing is that if it is spam keeping the remaining news-servers going, then we happy few are beneficiaries.
Ed
There are commercial servers (Hollywood movies in binary groups),
and then there are the text-only servers we use.
The Newsdemon statistic quoted above, is traffic exchanged between
commercial servers. When E-S asks for messages, it asks for the
messages in the (low-volume) text groups. And that's basically,
because the bandwidth on the server in the COLO, makes that sort
of model feasible. That means 99.5% of what Newsdemon carries,
E-S never sees and E-S never samples.
There is one dude, who uploads the same 1TB of movies, every day.
He does this, because TakeDownBots shoot down the messages every day.
And he puts the movies back up.
Now, let us compare his 1TB of posts, with your posts :-)
The two of you, are kinda different users.
Not a lot of thought goes into his posts. The posts are
machine generated. But they're not spam, they're Piracy.
Paul
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