Are Q & A forums such as this going to replace Usenet forums?

Question

It's apparent that Yahoo and others are cashing in on the Q & A forum market. While generally good for internet users, I'm wondering whether this kind of thing is going to replace Usenet. I've always found the old-fashioned internet newsgroups to be a good source of knowledge.

Answer 1

Not likely...



For one thing there are newsgroups where vendors such as Microsoft provide direct support for their products and they are not going to migrate to a product from say a Yahoo.



BTW I answered your license question, correctly I might add unlike all the other answers.

Answer 2

The fact that Usenet doesn't have a an easily-usable web interface has kept away the hordes of people who are rapidly driving this site into the ground. If Usenet were accessible to the average net user then it'd end up just like what you see here - thousands of teenage girls posting questions like "OMG! WHAT SHOULD I DO TONIGHT!?" and thousands of guys *pretending* to be teenage girls and posting questions like "HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A PEENUS?!"



I think Usenet will be alive and viable for a good, long time.

Answer 3

yes I hope so soon it ll replace All othere groups