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Originally Posted by tammix
I have been a usenet fan since 1994 and I can tell you most of the users stay there because they have time and patience to find stuff, especially these says of spam... lots of porn doesnt mean instant gratification, on the contrary it comes saturation and frustration eventually
for the impulsive, impatient and selective porn seeker there is the web with the good designed and luring niche sites
Usenet is like a chinese buffet, all-you-can-visually-eat for 5.95. Good web sites are like Texas Lohan's restaurants ;-) where you can find prime fresh pussy for 29.95 (like Selina's)
two worlds, to different customers to serve ;-)
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Likewise, I've been a fixture on Usenet since '93 or so (I still remember manually decoding binaries with UUencode before browsers could do it automatically), and I tend to agree with what you've said.
For the most part, I think Usenet still remains predominantly a geek domain though - populated mostly by people who would never pay for a commercial site membership anyways.
The newsgroup landscape has changed a lot over the years, though. The proliferation of spam has increased geometrically since the early days - making it more tedious and difficult to find the prime 'cuts of beef' among the tofu and soggy veggies.
A buddy of mine still refers to it as the last 'Dodge City' online.