I have no useful input, but this was definitely an interesting post to read.
(I pine somewhat for actual Usenet. It's still there, of course, but more and more providers are dropping news server access from their service palettes - my own did last summer or the summer before, I forget - and the few times I've dipped back in since then, signal to noise was really pathetic except perhaps in a few places. Certainly the various occult/pagan/magick groups have gone down the tubes, in my opinion. I probably wasn't around for the real "golden age" but in my personal history that was somewhere in the mid to late 90s.)
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Date: 2011-09-09 05:37 pm (UTC)(I pine somewhat for actual Usenet. It's still there, of course, but more and more providers are dropping news server access from their service palettes - my own did last summer or the summer before, I forget - and the few times I've dipped back in since then, signal to noise was really pathetic except perhaps in a few places. Certainly the various occult/pagan/magick groups have gone down the tubes, in my opinion. I probably wasn't around for the real "golden age" but in my personal history that was somewhere in the mid to late 90s.)