• Re: greetings from a long-lost FAQ list maintainer

    From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 6 16:08:44 2023
    Am 06.01.2023 um 16:34:06 Uhr schrieb Otto J. Makela:

    It is interesting how Usenet suddenly on the whole seems to be having
    a bit of a renaissance. This is nice, as all alternatives that have
    turned up over the years are centered around a single company or a
    website.

    Why do you think it has a renaissance?
    Especially the English part comp.* seems to be most abandoned.

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  • From Otto J. Makela@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Fri Jan 6 17:33:34 2023
    Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> wrote:

    Am 06.01.2023 um 16:34:06 Uhr schrieb Otto J. Makela:
    It is interesting how Usenet suddenly on the whole seems to be having
    a bit of a renaissance. This is nice, as all alternatives that have
    turned up over the years are centered around a single company or a
    website.

    Why do you think it has a renaissance?
    Especially the English part comp.* seems to be most abandoned.

    There is actual discussion in news.groups, moderators are being
    re-appointed, and the message I was following up to was the comp.lang.c
    FAQ reporting in. Not very much, but still better than nothing.
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  • From Stefan Ram@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Fri Jan 6 16:47:59 2023
    Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> writes:
    Ok. Are there any "project" in getting new users to the groups and >advertising them?

    I remember that, maybe 10 years ago, a group of people moved
    from a Web forum to "comp.misc". I think some are still posting
    there today.

    Otherwise, I am not aware of any revival of the (text) Usenet.

    For "de.all", IIRC, Cornell Binder has created a web site
    with statistics. Something like "usenet.dex.de". I have the
    impression that the use is still descreasing and I am afraid
    there will be no revival.

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jan 6 17:29:15 2023
    Am 06.01.2023 um 17:33:34 Uhr schrieb Otto J. Makela:

    There is actual discussion in news.groups, moderators are being
    re-appointed, and the message I was following up to was the
    comp.lang.c FAQ reporting in. Not very much, but still better than
    nothing.

    Ok. Are there any "project" in getting new users to the groups and
    advertising them?

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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/01/2023 14:34, Otto J. Makela
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    <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">It is interesting how Usenet suddenly on the whole seems to be having a
    bit of a renaissance. </pre>
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    Don't hold your breadth for this. The Juntas have killed off the
    newsgroups by censoring any posts that criticises their stupidity.
    These Juntas should be banned from censoring anything but I know
    this is asking too much because they are old, dying and unlikely to
    change when new ideas are put forward. Frankly they should all call
    it a day and spend more time with their grand children from whom
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  • From Anton Shepelev@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 15 23:39:52 2023
    Otto J. Makela:

    It is interesting how Usenet suddenly on the whole seems
    to be having a bit of a renaissance. This is nice, as all
    alternatives that have turned up over the years are
    centered around a single company or a website.

    With that site requiring a modern browser, OS, and computer,
    and enforcing its own peculiar visual style often cluttered
    with all sorts of noise.

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  • From Tristan Miller@21:1/5 to Otto J. Makela on Tue Mar 14 17:46:25 2023
    Greetings.

    On 2023-01-06 09:33, Otto J. Makela wrote:
    There is actual discussion in news.groups, moderators are being
    re-appointed, and the message I was following up to was the comp.lang.c
    FAQ reporting in. Not very much, but still better than nothing.


    Part of this increase in activity is the revitalization of the Big-8
    Management Board. The Board had been dormant for a few years, but a
    couple years ago the former members finally voted in some successors.
    We've been holding regular (nearly weekly) meetings ever since, and have
    been gradually modernizing and cleaning up the Board's website and infrastructure, processing group creation and deletion requests, and
    finding replacement moderators. We've also taken it upon ourselves to
    take over development of the STUMP and WebSTUMP robomoderator programs
    and to spread the word about Usenet via social media, conference talks,
    etc. Progress has been slow (since we all have day jobs and other
    commitments) but steady.

    Regards,
    Tristan

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  • From Tristan Miller@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Tue Mar 14 18:03:06 2023
    Greetings.

    On 2023-01-06 10:29, Marco Moock wrote:
    Ok. Are there any "project" in getting new users to the groups and advertising them?


    The Big-8 Board has been trying to raise interest and participation in
    Usenet generally by giving talks and interviews in other media. We've
    been covered in the Open Collective blog, hosted a Reddit IAmA, and
    given talks on Usenet at various conferences and events. See, for
    example, the announcement elsewhere in this group of our upcoming talk
    at LibrePlanet 2023: <news:tur1oc$ik1d$1@dont-email.me>

    Besides this, it seems that certain other communities have been
    advertising groups. In 2021 the Board created the
    comp.infosystems.gemini group and it seems to be doing well without any promotion from us (apart from the usual group creation announcement).

    Regards,
    Tristan

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    Usenet Big-8 Management Board
    https://www.big-8.org/
    board@big-8.org

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  • From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 15 08:45:00 2023
    Am 14.03.2023 um 18:03:06 Uhr schrieb Tristan Miller:

    The Big-8 Board has been trying to raise interest and participation
    in Usenet generally by giving talks and interviews in other media.
    We've been covered in the Open Collective blog, hosted a Reddit IAmA,
    and given talks on Usenet at various conferences and events. See,
    for example, the announcement elsewhere in this group of our upcoming
    talk at LibrePlanet 2023: <news:tur1oc$ik1d$1@dont-email.me>

    Besides this, it seems that certain other communities have been
    advertising groups. In 2021 the Board created the
    comp.infosystems.gemini group and it seems to be doing well without
    any promotion from us (apart from the usual group creation
    announcement).

    This is good news, thanks.

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