----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 9:49 PM Subject: Re: OT Lots of Nasty Spam
> People new to the Net just know pretty much about webpages, someone can fill > you in on usenet better than I regarding how long it's been around. But in the > hairy old days of the Internet before web pages became the norm, most people > used usenet. i was using it in the early 80s. > A lot of people still do. There have to be over 1,000 discussion groups -- > someone else can also fill you in better than I on how many there are. Maybe > 5,000. the wide Usenet was about 30,000 newsgroups about 10 years ago. Herb....

