Re: [9fans] Dead_Baby_jokes_-_what_the_bXX?

[Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:25:17 -0700 (MST), Ronald G. Minnich
<rminnich@lanl.gov> wrote:
> does anyone out there* read usenet any more anyway?

Only through Google.  I still find Google's archives insanely useful,
and when I occasionally follow some new thread it's only as they
trickle into the archives.

The catch 22 is that so few people post to Usenet anymore that I think
its value is waning.  The ongoing spam issues don't help any.  One day
Google will just give everyone a copy on DVD in their box of Wheaties
and call it done.

Though, it would be interesting to provide RSS feeds of Usenet groups.
 It could help a resurgence.

I also find myself occasionally answering some random, lonely,
unanswered question from 1997 that I randomly come across in Google. 
You figure they eventually found the answer or just moved on, but I
like to think that if it doesn't help the original poster it'll help
someone down the road.  The Usenet philosophy, I guess.

I think the archive is also good to remind me how much I sounded --
still sound? -- like an ass, and to just keep my mouth shut.  Still
trying to learn that lesson.

-Jack