Text Usenet a a whole is plainly in decline (although is the relatively flat 2009 the end of the decline or just a temporary plateau like in 2006?) I don't know of a comparable graph restricted to uk.*.
I think that some UK groups are pretty dead - uk.games.roleplay gets about one genuine post a week, and about ten spam. The last time I looked uk.rec.pets.misc was ALL spam from an American lunatic selling some sort of crackpot dog training scheme. Uk.people.sf.fans is almost all cross-posted from other SF groups.
But some of the mainstream science fiction groups are very busy, e.g. rec.arts.sf.written gets hundreds of real posts every day.
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Date: 2009-12-02 09:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-12-02 10:49 am (UTC)Text Usenet a a whole is plainly in decline (although is the relatively flat 2009 the end of the decline or just a temporary plateau like in 2006?) I don't know of a comparable graph restricted to uk.*.
There are on the order of ten thousand active posters to uk.*. That'd require a pretty lively definition of “dead” IMO.
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Date: 2009-12-02 11:16 am (UTC)But some of the mainstream science fiction groups are very busy, e.g. rec.arts.sf.written gets hundreds of real posts every day.
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