"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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I agree that Newsgroups appear to be fading away quite quickly now, I
posted to another Ng a few days ago a technical question that 3 or 4 years
ago would have had probably more than 10 knowledgeable replies by now, but
I've had nothing at all.

I think the problem started when most ISPs stopped supporting newsgroups.
On my original computer there was a button on the toolbar which said
"newsgroups" and that's how I discovered Usenet. Then I had to get an NIN
subscription to continue (not a problem) but most new computer users don't
even know Usenet is there as there is no gateway to it. My last two
computers didn't have a ng button for interested minds to notice. but I've
recently bought an old Dell with Windows XP Professional on and it still has
the newsgroup button which I can click on and get the whole list of
newsgroups available, but maybe it's because I have NIN. I wonder what
would happen if I clicked on it and hadn't. At least it is there.
Unless the ISPs can be persuaded to support newsgroups again and promote
them, Usenet will die and it will be such a loss.
Tina