Re: Death of usenet

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

Philipp K. Janert wrote:
> I learned recently that one can subscribe to usenet groups 
> via Google Groups, so that one gets usenet postings via 
> email. I have used Google's web interface to post.

So have a lot of others.  Which only contributes to Google's "success" 
as the single biggest source of USENET's problems these days.

Google groups sucks badly as a posting interface.  It's the only system 
that ever managed to create even more broken postings than Outlook.

Gmail accounts have become today's source #1 for USENET spam.

Reaping Google's adword payouts on Google's own blogspot pages has 
become a major motive for USENET spam.

And last but not least, groups.google.com has so completely clouded the 
distinction between actual USENET and their own, Google-only discussion 
groups that many people no longer know the difference.

> That being said, I find it confusing to have a gnuplot
> users mailing list (gnu...@li...)
> AND a users newsgroup (comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot).

They used to be bidirectionally gatewayed to each other.  This died 
years ago, when we lost support by Dartmouth.edu.  Sourceforge.net 
doesn't offer a USENET gateway.