I have just beeen looking at some erstwhile newsgroups and seen the
way that all Usenet will go if there is any chance of it ever being
capable of offering something useful to mankind.

It is how satan will shut it down. I think the biblical allusion is
"as waves" or the "sea of humanity". Signal to noise.

Shame to think that a group that has almost no posters in it can so
easily go the same way too.

Or maybe all I need to do it sign on to a decent server and stop using
Google?

Bloody shame.