The problems are twofold. Firstly, nobody knows about Usenet mainly because
isps are gradually closing their servers.
Secondly web forums have taken over.
I add here that I hate web forums as they tend to all have completely
different interfaces and are hard work for us blind.
Now we hear that Windows 7 will not have anews reader bundled. you have to
download one.

Well there you go, Will usenet go the same way as Gopher?
Brian

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"Keith G" wrote in message
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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.

Elsewhere, eBay is very flaccid these days with reams of identical
auctions from traders (mostly Chinese) and no end of secondhand items
getting no bids at all - it looks like in the UK, at least, used budget
audio gear isn't making money worth the hassle of packing it up and
lugging it to the post office!! (I've got one or two items I'll never use
again but I CBA to try and punt them - especially with the current 'credit
crunch'!)

It goes on: Most websites I've looked at recently haven't been updated for
at least 2 years and no end of cross-referenced websites come back with
the '404 tough titty' screen. A lot more Wiki pages are loaded with
disputes and queries these days and more websites and forums are asking
for donations and subscriptions; popular, 'useful' sites like the IMDB are
so plastered with advertising and pop-ups they are becoming almost too
tiresome to use

Then there's more talk of censorship and restriction at national levels -
is it the end of the Internet as we knew it...??

(Or is it now evolving into the *Disinternet* and is that a bad thing
anyway - instant access to endless everything and almost all of it not
worth the bother!!)