whilst usenet still exists and is still used, the large part of the 'discussing things' traffic is very low, everything has pretty much moved to forums first and then to 'social media' like reddit

you could look for misc.taxes.moderated, no idea if its still active though

79% of people asked stated social media causes more problems than it solves: Deleted by Twitter...

Google purchased Dejanews, who ran an archive of much of the newsgroups.

Google operated it for a year or two in good faith and then maimed the search option to such a degree that it is very difficult to use it effectively... It's possible, but difficult.

Thanks all the people who supported Google in her infancy.

I had the impression that unmoderated usenet groups were completely overrun by spam.

ASVS? The last post was 2020 though. Unfortunately I have never been a member. I was really into Star Wars vs Star Trek debates back then, although mostly as lurker (but hey, I had my share of fun!), and I heard ASVS was the place where people say 'fuck you' as casually as 'how are you'.

gerry wrote on 2021-05-12, 10:41:

whilst usenet still exists and is still used, the large part of the 'discussing things' traffic is very low, everything has pretty much moved to forums first and then to 'social media' like reddit

you could look for misc.taxes.moderated, no idea if its still active though

It looks like this group still exists and a few posts are going through, but almost nobody replies. I'd say there is some market for a modern income tax forum, but I suppose the trouble is getting accountants or lawyers who love the subject so much that they volunteer their time to reply.