On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:25:31 -0400, m.roth-x6lchVBUigD1P9xLtpHBDw wrote: [....]
And Usenet is effectively gone.
It's still there. And some newsgroups are still busy, though not like in the good days of the early nineties.
Indeed, alas! But there is Gmane, which is a huge help, especially for those of us who are still (and doubtless irremediably) subtechnoid. In particular, point your reader (Let's hear it for Pan, too! ) at news.gmane.org, and look at fedora.general.