Right, but Usenet died.

We might have different definitions of 'died.' Approximately a hundred thousand non-spam posts a month in the text heirarchy and hundreds of terabytes a month in the binaries seems like a living system to me. I accept that this might not be enough for others to bother with.

Not so fast. I still read about a dozen newsgroups.

Ok. I believe you. Are the newsgroups in the room with us right now?

Yep. I click on this icon in my MintLinux panel and voila!

     Tue Mar 5, 2024  4:50pm                              TASS News Reader 3.7.2 jvs [linux]
                                                                   Group Selection
 
 
     ->      1  comp.os.coherent                    
             2  comp.os.cpm                         
             3  comp.sys.northstar                  
             4  comp.unix.programmer                
             5  comp.os.linux.misc                  1   
             6  alt.autos.mercedes                  
             7  alt.sys.pdp8                        
             8  aus.ads.forsale.computers.used      
             9  comp.emulators.misc                 
            10  alt.os.linux.mint                   42  
            11  alt.os.linux.debian                 
            12  alt.sysadmin.recovery

Next we go to group 10 and select

     Tue Mar 5, 2024  4:57pm                              TASS News Reader 3.7.2 jvs [linux]
                                                                  alt.os.linux.mint
 
 
          1  firefox security oddity                                                       9 Mike Scott <[email protected]   
          2  Logitech keyboard replacement issues                                          8 azigni <[email protected]>                      
          3  Firefox-Ubuntu - How to restore tabs after <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<PrtSc>+REISUB ?      1 Adam <adam@no_thanks.com>                      
          4  dual boot - windows space requirement                                         6 TimW <[email protected]>                     
          5  [OT} New desktop part 6.                                                     11 pinnerite <[email protected]>                
          6  Lonely Obnoxious Cantankerous Auto-contradicting Senile Ozzie Troll Alert     1 Peeler <[email protected]>               
          7  Unable to install GRUB                                                       10 pinnerite <[email protected]>                
          8  Does anyone of you really think Mint Version 1000 will have the default a    24 Edmund <[email protected]>                    
          9  wine-wine                                                                     5 Monsieur <[email protected]>            
         10  Recovering data                                                               4 pinnerite <[email protected]>                
         11  Flight simulators                                                             4 pinnerite <[email protected]>                
         12  Alternative to Vidalia for a Tor server on another computer of a network        TeddyTheBest2004 <[email protected]> 
         13  No access to linux mint website??                                             2 TeddyTheBest2004 <[email protected]> 
         14  turbocad LE                                                                  10 TimW <[email protected]>                     
         15  Email host                                                                      Chris Holmes <[email protected]>         
         16  MySQL problem                                                                 9 pinnerite <[email protected]>                
         17  typing onto the desktop                                                       4 TimW <[email protected]>                     
         18  De ontwikkeling van AI.                                                       2 Edmund <[email protected]>                    
         19  Ignore wrong group.                                                             Edmund <[email protected]>                    
         20  Thunar bugs                                                                   2 Handsome Jack ([email protected])              
         21  Failed to read hd0                                                           27 RobH <[email protected]>                             +
         22  Stop stealing focus                                                           8 Monsieur <[email protected]>            
         23  Anyone using Hypnotix?                                                        2 pinnerite <[email protected]>                
         24  Thunderbird 115.6.0                                                           3 pinnerite <[email protected]>                
         25  VideoDownloader doesn't work anymore so I tried Youtube Downloader Plus.     29 Edmund <[email protected]>                       +
         26  Intel Iris XE graphics                                                        1 Jeff <[email protected]>                       +
         27  Clone a disk problem                                                          1 RobH <[email protected]>                             +
     ->  28  No access to restored files                                                   3 Jeff <[email protected]>                       +
 

EC 4 ME

And now we have walled gardens and monopolies abusing people to death.

To death, you say!