"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Keith G wrote:
And it is.

But is it 'audio', Usenet or the the Internet generally? I also hooked
up to a number of (digital) photography newsgroups and they are mostly
silent with the few that do have some traffic usually getting less than
a dozen posts a day.

My estimate is newsgroup use (based on those I subscribe to) has dropped
by one half from the peak of some years ago. My newsreader tells me how
many articles it has expired each day - so pretty easy to get an estimate
from that.

I'd say website based forums have increased by more than this decline -
the ease of posting pics and data being one obvious reason.


Sure. The photography forums are certainly going like trains but the
'bandwidth burners' posting endless reams of (frequently) very crappy pix
(which all get 'quoted' by clowns who know no better) are melting the
icecaps...