According to Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>:

If it wasn't for the archive, they might as well turn off posting to
their own groups/lists, as it seems they haven't got any users left.

Only part of groups peered with usenet. There are plenty of live
groups that are private discussion lists. I'm on a few of them.

I'm not surprised that the ex-usenet groups are dead. Anyone who
cared has moved somewhere else that still peers.

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John Levine wrote:

Only part of groups peered with usenet. There are plenty of live
groups that are private discussion lists. I'm on a few of them.

I'm not surprised that the ex-usenet groups are dead. Anyone who
cared has moved somewhere else that still peers.

I've never used the non-usenet parts of googlegroups, I see hundreds of thousands of "groups" by searching for names containing a single letter
"a" or "t", yet 99% of them say no new traffic in last 30 days, some
have never had any messages ...

For some usenet groups there are people who compile monthly/yearly stats
of prolific posters, until recently over half the users in some groups
were via googlegroups.

I found googlegroups unbearable to use for sending, I would only do so
if I wanted to reply to an ancient message that had aged-out from my thunderbird ...

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