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Old April 10th 13, 02:00 AM posted to rec.autos.makers.ford.mustang
Ashton Crusher[_2_]
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Default Why so little traffic on a Mustang Usenet group?

On Tue, 9 Apr 2013 17:43:36 -0700, "Frank S" >
wrote:

>I'm soliciting theories that would account for the differences between
>the amount of communication on the dozens of Internet forums and the
>very few Mustang-related Usenet groups.
>
>I have seen those forums, and I'm not really very impressed with the
>general caliber of correspondents. There are some worthwhile sites, but
>...
>
>Without wide experience on Usenet, I have the impression the discourse
>here is more likely to be civil, considered, and serious in comparison
>to the forums.
>
>How come?
>
>--
>Frank ess


- Usenet is uncontrolled so it attracts lots of spam and crazy people.
- It cost ISPs money to support Usenet so most of them stopped
supporting it and running servers for it.
- Usenet was a known commodity to the "older" generation who started
out on CompuServe and text based networking and they were comfortable
using it. An awful lot of the "newer" generation never became aware
of it or found using it too complicated so the user base has dwindled
way off.

I much prefer Usenet for "discussion" since you can have hundreds of
discussions all in one organized framework.

I generally don't like the "Forums" because it fragments everything
including things that really should all be discussed together... Like
Mustangs. Now to discuss "mustangs" you have to join several forums,
email lists, groups, etc and you wind up either missing a lot of
interesting stuff or reading teh same stuff posted redundantly.

You can't fight "progress" and it seems Usenet is doomed to eventually
die out due to lack of support and participation. Certainly the
objections to all the spam and cross posting are valid ones, problems
that can be controlled in "Forums" - that is one good thing about
"forums".

- One thing you rarely find on Usenet anymore is civility however. The
anonymity makes to too easy to start flame wars.
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