[1amzave]

Well, usenet isn't really dead per se, though it's admittedly not what it once was. Some of us still use it, and some newsgroups still have nice communities to them and are still good sources of information. True, many groups are overrun with spam, and in my experience it seems to attract a disproportionate number of lunatics, but it's still got its good parts, and I think it's a shame that so many ISPs are dropping it as of late.