Used to. Lately it turns up a lot in my google searches. Not Usenet, but I actively mirror mailing lists via the NTP gateway of GMANE. This excellent for learni

Used to. Lately it turns up a lot in my google searches. Not Usenet, but I actively mirror mailing lists via the NTP gateway of GMANE. This excellent for learning Open Source software packages; I mirror the entire discussion archive with Thunderbird and I can search it when I am not online. I think I have "groked" the guts of major software projects fairly quickly this way.