PSA for Usenet users

[rz]

If you don't peruse Usenet, you can ignore this post.

For those of you who may not check Usenet frequently, about a month ago one of the larger Usenet providers started re-posting a crap-ton of stuff from about 2009/2010 timeframe. Groups that had been mostly dead for years all of the sudden had a bunch of stuff in them.  It's still going on.  Someone in one of the groups I download from tracked down which provider it was (I don't remember which one, but it doesn't matter).  Most Usenet trackers only go back a couple of years, so if you weren't active back in 2009 or 2010, you may not have seen some of this stuff.  I've pretty much been a regular Usenet user since 1998 (originally started in 1983), so I've already seen this stuff.  However, some of my musical tastes have changed, so I'm finding a few things here and there to download.  One note though... not everything is 100% there.  Not only are parts missing on some files, entire files are missing.  It's been frustrating to download an "album" but it's missing a few tracks.  I'm having about an 80% success rate on the stuff I've tried. Happy hunting.

[special]

I never used usenet to download stuff like this, only for the discussion forums. I was part of several mac, photography and other groups. those are all gone.

[Speedy]

I never used usenet to download stuff like this, only for the discussion forums. I was part of several mac, photography and other groups. those are all gone.

Yep, I was a frequent usenet reader, too, but it seems Reddit has supplanted it.