I joined a couple of years back, but came away disappointed. All the groups I followed 20 years back are pale shadows of their former selves, filled with spam. And most of those were big in the day and included the comp.lang.c|c++ and a few of the comp.os groups.
There's still a need for usenet, and I'd love to participate if there was anyone worth talking to. But it needs fixing first.
comp.misc is still going strong. It has been "taken over" by people running away from Slashdot when it got "corporatized" some years back, and has some interesting discussions from time to time.
There's still a need for usenet, and I'd love to participate if there was anyone worth talking to. But it needs fixing first.