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I decided to have look again a few months ago. I had it still configured in Thunderbird but have not pulled messages for some years.
It is still alive (at least the German newsgroups). But much less traffic than in the 90s and early 2000s. I still remember the names of many posters.
There is a big advantage:
Mainly longtime users with much experience in the technical groups and very few (if any) trolls.
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Jochen Arndt wrote: much less traffic than in the 90s and early 2000s
Usenet gets a few dozen TBs worth of new data every single day; that's why Usenet servers are no longer free. I'd say there's a lot more traffic on Usenet today than ever before.
Problem is...it's all crap.
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With traffic I meant the amount of text postings, not the volume of data transferred which is sourced by the binary groups.
The decline of the text postings can be seen by the statistics provided by many servers. If you don't need binary groups there are still free servers available like open-news-network.org.
With the text postings the quality has increased (at least in the groups I have subscribed). I have never used binary groups because it always was mainly crap.
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I've had that happen to me, in different flavors. The most amusing one is googling for a solution to something and getting a link to a Code Project article.
That I wrote. 
Marc
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Was your article helpful or even provided the solution?
Or was it just another page beating around the bush 
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Wade Frankum shot up a load of people in Strathfield Plaza with an AK-47 and I got married.
He's dead, but if he wasn't he'd probably be free now, I'm not.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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My commiserations - not, despite your moaning and bitching you are still married, suck it up sweetheart!
Like me you are either too lazy or too comfortable or just plain happy to be married to do anything about it. I'm coming up on 40 years married and am as happy as a pig in mud. Can you imagine going through the hassle of finding another woman who would put up with you.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: My commiserations - not, despite your moaning and bitching you are still married, suck it up sweetheart!
Like me you are either too lazy or too comfortable or just plain happy to be married to do anything about it. I'm coming up on 40 years married and am as happy as a pig in mud. Can you imagine going through the hassle of finding another woman who would put up with you.
Who would. Not starting with all that sh*t again after all these years.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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meh, I think you just replaced happiness with acceptance. That, or she brainwashed you 
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V. wrote: or she brainwashed you
No brainwashing required, good food did the trick nicely.
I recently had 3 months where we were in different countries, makes you appreciate the work the wife puts in to running even a small household.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: am as happy as a pig in mud.
Do you ever tell her that? Does she know?
Anyhow, I am happily married as well. 
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Isn't he with Hugh Janus?
I suspect you might end up restricted to the soapbox with that username...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Isn't he with Hugh Janus?
I suspect you might end up restricted to the soapbox with that username...
I could be, Heywood Jabloame, or they could set it so I can make changes to settings without it telling me I can't as the name is already taken.
Maunder changed the popup thingy for me but removed my bold and italic settings and I can't get them back.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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No but I've seen his brother Eric. 
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Or his other brother - Warwick.
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It's a big family, as their younger brother Yorick was telling me the other day. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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And all are in third grade, as it looks. But ok, you forgot uncle Richard, also known as 'Tricky' Dick.
The user can't update the up: we update it for them (Choice in the CP poll)
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Your training period is almost, but not quite, over.
Another 24 years should do it.
Congrats.
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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After 50 years, you reach the age of discretion. The years before that are know as the years of indiscretion!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Yes. As they say: Too soon old, too late smart. 
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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Happy Anniversary! I suspect your wife feels the same. 
Marc
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My old note 4 finally gave up the ghost and turned tits up on me recently, as they discontinued the note line of products due to an over enthusiastic battery I got me an S8+.
They say it has the same screen space due to the screen going all the way to the bevel BUT if you have great fat fingers like mine you end up randomly starting an app whenever you pick it up. And some apps look really weird when the screen disappears off into infinity at the edge.
There is one issue I find annoying - the music app randomly starts playing, walking along the street and Spotify start up while the phone is in my pocket. Spotify got chucked and moved to Play Music but did not put an icon on the front screen - can't blame accidental launching.
A couple of days later I'm in a meeting and the bloody music starts playing, play Music got removed from the phone with prejudice.
After ratting around the interwebs I have come to the conclusion that it may be driven by the bluetooth on the phone - but I don't have bluetootht turned on, weird.
I'm convinced that the phone activates the default music app when tickled by a bluetooth connection, even if bluetooth is not enabled.
Still it is a nice shiny new phone so I'll keep it and hope Samsung fix the issue. It does make a nice ereader.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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