[WikiEN-l] Abuse of your services

Sat May 7 00:25:54 UTC 2005

Stan Shebs wrote:
> Another irony is that Usenet was once as revered as a source
> of good information as Google is today - I suspect part of the
> disconnect in the discussion is the difference in perception
> between people for whom it was an important part of their
> lives (in my case, 1982 to 1994 or so), vs those who've
> never known it as anything other than a flame board.

There are still useful parts of Usenet, for instance 
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/ne.transportation/browse_frm/thread/288c4bbfd0265c9f/c492e9162faefeed 
(used as one of several sources for 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasant_Street_Incline ).