Re:Why UseNet will remain popular (Score 1)

I started reading USENET around 1984 - certainly by 1990 I was reading it regularly. It's grown since then. Then I used RN, now I use Mac Soup or ( on UNIX) Netscape - which never savers my subscriptions, so I use it much less often. The difficulty with USENET is the sheer volume. I have to skim interesting threads as life is only so long. Spam is a minor problem compared with this. I agree largely with your post but I think the sheer VOLUME of news is a problem, and many users do not want to search through 30,000+ titles. Fortunately the better newsreaders can automate search, but the larger groups are too unwieldy for a dial up connection ( misc.jobs.offered should be split into multiple groups for example) No USENET will not die, but it needs radicallu new tools to prevent information overload.