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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....


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