Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:15:49 +0000
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Subject: Re: what's the current volume of USENET?
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On 19 Dec 2024 23:42:37 +1000, noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:40:36 -0300, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
>> I'm looking for any notion of how busy USENET is right now, so the
>> number of servers and the number of articles posted by month is enough
>> for me.  I found
>
>Number of servers you'll never know, that top1000 depends on admins 
>bothering to configure and send stats, for every server that does there's 
>probably 20 that don't - I know we don't.
>As for articles, text groups, in past 22.5 hours (since last daily 
>maintenance run) we've received just over 21K articles, at about 51mb.
>So grows about 1.5gb a month, roughly. far cry from years gone by where 
>we'd see that and more in just  one day, but, some people like the eye 
>candy bloatware of html on forums now for some reason i'll never 
>understand :)

it's only a theory, but if the infinite universe is perfect, and whole
galaxies are in fact self-balancing systems, then by keeping imperfect
humans out of the loop (i.e., never understanding) that way everything
remains perfectly in balance . . . so for every action there can be an
equal and opposite action, forever in keeping with the right-hand rule

as for why some might prefer bells, buzzers and whistles to plain-text
content . . . could be distraction, deflection, a means of escape from
the ineffable realm of imagination, in favor of the material existence
as prisoners of gravity in time, the divine right of kings to wage war
in perpetuity . . . they love to live by the sword, it's their destiny

not exactly on-topic, but usenet seems more tolerant than social media