OT: USENET and cryptography (was: "annoying" inline gpg signatures)

[Kenneth P. Turvey]

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On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 08:52:46 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:

> There's people still using USENET?  Why?

There are still _a lot_ of people using USENET.  It is still the best
place to discuss many, many topics.  I use it all the time for topics I'm
interested in.  

> Or, in the case of USENET, have nightmares.  ;)

There's that too.  :-)

It actually has cleaned up a lot in recent years.  Most of the spamming is
taken care of by automated cancel-bots.  I suspect that in terms of
bandwidth it is still predominated by porn and copyright violations of
various types, but the text based groups are still quite active.  

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Kenneth P. Turvey <kt-usenet at squeakydolphin.com>

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