"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:

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.

Unfortunately it also increases the number of total dickheads. Go to
rec.audio.pro and see my refutation of a 'magic cable' merchant in the
"Hydra-Audio cables" thread. Thankfully we get few of these on Usenet and we
spit them out fast.

Graham