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Came up recently as still active, never used it myself

Came up recently as still active, never used it myself
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It was a disaster in the 90s (which is the last time I used it). I can't imagine it got any better. It's probably 100% filled with CP and other porn now. I wouldn't touch alt.binaries with @boone's dick. What are you expecting to find on Usenet?

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Sat 11512 Sep 1993

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Sat 11512 Sep 1993

The eternal autumn. Thanks, Compuserve.

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That was AOHell that gave us eternal September.

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Just curious as to what state it's in these days. I would just assume it's contaminated.

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It had a brief resurgence during the 2010s when torrents got cracked down on. Now it's heavily monitored and infiltrated with trackers. Do not use for anything you wouldn't want to be seen owning or doing.

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That is what my research told me too. I could be wrong but it's a big reason why I don't use it currently.

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I still have a couple of alts in my feed reader:

co cpm rh oracle rgr nethack csipg adventure cs tandy rra boatanchors c risks

I had some others, but they were too drama intense - like the raspberry pi one - or just got so few posts after the google closure that they got nothing. Most of that was spam anyway, desperate idiots posting garbage to a forum that 10 people subscribe to...

Even some of the ones I have in that list get very little activity, like tandy and boatanchors. The rest are either regular monthlies or get a decent amount of activity for a forgotten comm method.