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From: Paul E. Black on 20 Jul 2010 11:35 Decades ago usenet news was an excellent source of news and chat, especially related to computer topics. These days all but two news groups I subscribe to have almost no traffic (other than spammers). I'm sure people still chat. Where on the Internet is something like usenet news? What has replaced these forums? -paul- -- Paul E. Black (p.black(a)acm.org)
From: Torben �gidius Mogensen on 2 Aug 2010 09:57
"Paul E. Black" <p.black(a)acm.org> writes: > Decades ago usenet news was an excellent source of news and chat, > especially related to computer topics. These days all but two news > groups I subscribe to have almost no traffic (other than spammers). > > I'm sure people still chat. Where on the Internet is something like > usenet news? What has replaced these forums? Alas, there is no central repository that cover all subjects. There are sites that specialise in specific topics and have discussion fora, and there are discussion-group hosts such as yahoogroups where anyone can start a new discussion group, either open or restricted to members. These sites usually allow more "rich" messages (pictures, formatting, etc) than usenet, but none of them have as wide circulation as usenet (used to have). My best advice would be to google <subject> + "discussion forum" and see what you find. Torben |