Evgenii Sputnik <
esptnk@gmail.com> wrote:
I now stand for soc.bitcoins. Why? Because alt.bitcoins already
exists and also because I support BTC over other currencies as I see no reason for other crypto-currencies to exist at all. I am more worried
about global acceptance of BTC than LTC/others or the technical side.
If you ask me, make a proposal to do it to all of them...
soc.bitcoins
rec.bitcoins
misc.bitcoins
comp.bitcoins
and whatever else there is in the "big-8", it just isn't going to make a difference with anything at all.
The simple answer to why is, nobody gives a shit anymore. Usenet died, there was a film at 11 and no one watched it. Creating a new group is just
catering to the people already on usenet, it doesn't attract outsiders
anymore and no one not on it looks forward to using it.
There are sites like bitcointalk.org, reddit and cointalk.com which have
more posts made in an hour than you'll ever see in 10 years on usenet.
Adding bitcoins to the big-8 is meaningless now. If it exists on alt.* it's doing as good as if it was on the 8. When usenet was being used as a
research and educational tool years ago, there was a reason to separate alt from the others. These days, it won't make any difference adding bitcoins to the big-8.
I might be wrong about the following but these were the last big-8 groups created within the last 10 years (or so):
comp.mobile.ipad 0000070144
rec.arts.tv.x-factor 0000035096
rec.arts.tv.dancing 0000001012
comp.mobile.android 0000046030
comp.sys.raspberry-pi 0000015466
comp.sys.mac.vintage 0000001933
those numbers at the end are the total posts made to them since they were created, and none of them are really barn burners figuring the number of
years they are been around.
The group before them was even worse. These were "fast tracked" after there wasn't enough people voting anymore, which is the way it used to work with
new big-8 groups (minimum number of people voting then a ratio of yes/no votes).
comp.internet.services.wiki 0000000127
rec.media.players.portable.ipod 0000006046
rec.media.players.portable 0000000097
rec.arts.tv.comedy.the-office 0000000088 comp.internet.services.blog.livejournal 0000000082 comp.internet.services.video.youtube 0000000333 comp.internet.services.social.myspace 0000000039
comp.internet.services.google 0000001609
Now those I'm sure are in the 10+ year range and if a big-8 group under comp for google only got 1609 posts, bitcoins in all big-8 groups, alt and even free.* isn't going to do any better. Probably will be closer to that myspace one with 39 posts.
Basically what I want to put across, there isn't anyone here anymore. Once
you remove the alt.binaries and non-u.s.a. ones (relcom, de.), there really isn't anything left. I've run a news server since the early 90's and have fairly complete logs going back to around 2008 online
(
http://nntp.ripco.com) and other logs archived to 2001 or so, but it's a
dead issue with no argument.
I mean yesterday (sept 4), grand total of 17636 articles posted making up a whopping 68mb of data. I carry 39330 groups, that is barely one post to half the total number. I'm sure there are more people reading than posting but I really doubt it's more than 2:1.
So again, excluding non-english and binary news groups, if you think those 35,000-40,000 people that probably read usenet daily have some interest in bitcoins, continue on with your quest.
Otherwise it is pointless. There is just us dinosaurs left.
Why do you think you see the same names popping up in any group where you
have been posting to?
-bruce
bje@ripco.com
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