Usenet NEWS vs. Bittorrent

[Leo Mauler]

--- On Mon, 7/14/08, David Nicol <davidnicol at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Leo Mauler
> <webgiant at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > 11,000,000 messages a DAY in *current* 
> > NetNews traffic
> 
> most of which have a subject line of 
> "MAKE MONEY FAST"

While that doesn't detract from the main point, that people are still finding NetNews to be useful for their individual pursuits :-), thats actually not quite as accurate a comment as you might think.

Most of the posts are binary posts, and of the text-only groups with the largest posting activity, most of those are moderated in some way (preventing "MAKE MONEY FAST" messages from being in the statistical numbers).

General-audience text-only newsgroups on NetNews responded to spam by making it harder to post spam messages on those groups.  Binary and adult groups aren't moderated so they get all the spam.  Which means that if you want to talk about science fiction, Terry Pratchett, and/or cats, chances are you'll see much less spam than if you are wanting to talk about bare bottoms and view naked breasts.