• Overzeetop@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I’ve yet to find a modern use for usenet as I’m not in the habit of downloading everything as it comes out, nor of looking for content within a few days of release. Often I’m looking for 2-5 year old content or back catalog, and usenet has been a uniform landscape of incompletes, even with two blocks on independent providers (or they were when I bought the data blocks).

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      The requests I receive from my users are typically from the 1990s up to current releases, but have gone as far back as 1951.

      I’ve only failed to find 5 of 140 requests since May.