On 2/1/2011 10:43 AM, Semenov Alexander wrote:

Everything you said is nice, but do you have any idea of how many users were there in USENET, who were them and whose interests did they serve?

Relcom was a company set up to distribute and service Unix. They initially used net news to support customers in 70 cities at the time of the coup attempt. The papers I link to in the blog post give answers to your questions -- the number of users and the sorts of things they used it for as well as the ways it was used during the days of the coup attempt. I also included a link to an archive that contains, among other things, the complete traffic during the days of the coup attempt.

Think about it before writing about wonderful effects of Internet on establishing "democracy".

Your sound upset -- what is your real issue here? Larry