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This information was posted on a figure skating group I read. The woman who
posted it is very computer literate, and I thought you might be interested. She titled her post "Imminent Death of Usenet Predicted" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Just wanted to warn anyone who's still listening here that this month's posting of the Competitive Figure Skating FAQ to this group will be the last one. My ISP (Comcast cable) has announced they are no longer going to provide access to Usenet newsgroups, effective next month. I understand that this is due to New York blaming Usenet for spreading child pornography, and that other large ISPs (Time Warner cable, etc) have already caved in and pulled the plug as well. I've thought about it for a bit, and decided it's not worthwhile for me to buy a pay subscription to a service like Giganews. There are only a few other groups I follow anymore, and I rarely post. RSSIF, in particular, already seems to have lost a critical mass of posters for it to be an interesting and worthwhile place to chat with fellow skatefans. With more large chunks of the online community losing Usenet access now, I think the situation is only going to deteriorate further. There's not much point in paying $7.95/month to talk to people who aren't there any longer. I'm aware that Google provides a free web-based Usenet gateway for both reading and posting. Apparently, though, most "real" Usenet services ignore articles posted from Google, so this doesn't seem like a practical alternative for posting the FAQ. Also, the scripts I use to produce the FAQ won't work with Google's interface, and I'm not keen on committing to do the extra work of posting it by hand if no one is listening anyway -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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USENET has been around long before the web, and will continue to exist. I was posting to local BBS before it was USENET. If you and your friends are interested in keeping the group going, there are countless free news servers that carry quite a few of the text only groups. http://freenews.maxbaud.net/ Just be sure that you choose a server that is not read only, but allows posting. DA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Just wanted to warn anyone who's still listening here that this month's posting of the Competitive Figure Skating FAQ to this group will be the last one. My ISP (Comcast cable) has announced they are no longer going to provide access to Usenet newsgroups, effective next month. I understand that this is due to New York blaming Usenet for spreading child pornography, and that other large ISPs (Time Warner cable, etc) have already caved in and pulled the plug as well. I've thought about it for a bit, and decided it's not worthwhile for me to buy a pay subscription to a service like Giganews. There are only a few other groups I follow anymore, and I rarely post. RSSIF, in particular, already seems to have lost a critical mass of posters for it to be an interesting and worthwhile place to chat with fellow skatefans. With more large chunks of the online community losing Usenet access now, I think the situation is only going to deteriorate further. There's not much point in paying $7.95/month to talk to people who aren't there any longer. I'm aware that Google provides a free web-based Usenet gateway for both reading and posting. Apparently, though, most "real" Usenet services ignore articles posted from Google, so this doesn't seem like a practical alternative for posting the FAQ. Also, the scripts I use to produce the FAQ won't work with Google's interface, and I'm not keen on committing to do the extra work of posting it by hand if no one is listening anyway -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Shillelagh wrote:
This information was posted on a figure skating group I read. The woman who posted it is very computer literate, and I thought you might be interested. She titled her post "Imminent Death of Usenet Predicted" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Just wanted to warn anyone who's still listening here that this month's posting of the Competitive Figure Skating FAQ to this group will be the last one. My ISP (Comcast cable) has announced they are no longer going to provide access to Usenet newsgroups, effective next month. I understand that this is due to New York blaming Usenet for spreading child pornography, and that other large ISPs (Time Warner cable, etc) have already caved in and pulled the plug as well. I've thought about it for a bit, and decided it's not worthwhile for me to buy a pay subscription to a service like Giganews. There are only a few other groups I follow anymore, and I rarely post. RSSIF, in particular, already seems to have lost a critical mass of posters for it to be an interesting and worthwhile place to chat with fellow skatefans. With more large chunks of the online community losing Usenet access now, I think the situation is only going to deteriorate further. There's not much point in paying $7.95/month to talk to people who aren't there any longer. I'm aware that Google provides a free web-based Usenet gateway for both reading and posting. Apparently, though, most "real" Usenet services ignore articles posted from Google, so this doesn't seem like a practical alternative for posting the FAQ. Also, the scripts I use to produce the FAQ won't work with Google's interface, and I'm not keen on committing to do the extra work of posting it by hand if no one is listening anyway -------------------------------------------------------------------- The imminent death of usenet has been predicted since about 1992. Certain news providers are dropping it in response to pressure from state and federal government to eliminate porn. Which is an all or nothing attitude; if they simply dropped only the alt.* heierarchy groups, that would seriously curtail porn propagation without affecting thousands, or millions of users. There are several free new providers out there where all you have to do is sign up with a valid email address. |
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Shillelagh wrote:
"DA" don't live wrote in message ... snip USENET has been around long before the web, and will continue to exist. I was posting to local BBS before it was USENET. If you and your friends are interested in keeping the group going, there are countless free news servers that carry quite a few of the text only groups. http://freenews.maxbaud.net/ Just be sure that you choose a server that is not read only, but allows posting. DA I only have my ISP, and for the present, they're still carrying it. However, I agree with the woman who made the original post. There are way fewer people reading ngroups than before, and this group is a perfect example. When we lost 80% of the people who used to post here, it was sad. But I refuse to read the new group on Yahell, much as I enjoyed the people who moved over there. I tend to agree with the woman who posted about it eventually going down the tubes. I think it's going to happen. But that's just my 2 cents and I'll continue to read this group until it dies. Shelagh Well, some of us will be here with you, so it may not die completely... maybe just take a nap from time to time. sue |
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On Sep 22, 3:00*am, "Shillelagh" wrote:
"DA" don't live wrote in messagenews:2OqdnX0FwIRTTkvVnZ2dnUVZ_qadnZ2d@gigan ews.com... snip USENET has been around long before the web, and will continue to exist. *I was posting to local BBS before it was USENET. If you and your friends are interested in keeping the group going, there are countless free news servers that carry quite a few of the text only groups. http://freenews.maxbaud.net/ Just be sure that you choose a server that is not read only, but allows posting. DA I only have my ISP, and for the present, they're still carrying it. However, I agree with the woman who made the original post. *There are way fewer people reading ngroups than before, and this group is a perfect example. When we lost 80% of the people who used to post here, it was sad. But I refuse to read the new group on Yahell, much as I enjoyed the people who moved over there. I tend to agree with the woman who posted about it eventually going down the tubes. *I think it's going to happen. *But that's just my 2 cents and I'll continue to read this group until it dies. Shelagh Dear Shelagh i do hope this Ng [and others won`t die` ] i used to read it thrtough Agent , but my server was bought by an other who doesn`t provide `Agent Access `, thus my son found me the Google Gate and i am quite happy with it ,, And i see some nice new people joined here as well , i do also read the list people made both are joyful ,,, mirjam |
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On Sep 22, 3:42*am, suzee wrote:
Shillelagh wrote: "DA" don't live wrote in message m... snip USENET has been around long before the web, and will continue to exist.. *I was posting to local BBS before it was USENET. If you and your friends are interested in keeping the group going, there are countless free news servers that carry quite a few of the text only groups. http://freenews.maxbaud.net/ Just be sure that you choose a server that is not read only, but allows posting. DA I only have my ISP, and for the present, they're still carrying it. However, I agree with the woman who made the original post. *There are way fewer people reading ngroups than before, and this group is a perfect example. When we lost 80% of the people who used to post here, it was sad. But I refuse to read the new group on Yahell, much as I enjoyed the people who moved over there. I tend to agree with the woman who posted about it eventually going down the tubes. *I think it's going to happen. *But that's just my 2 cents and I'll continue to read this group until it dies. Shelagh Well, some of us will be here with you, so it may not die completely... maybe just take a nap from time to time. sue- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - As long as we dream up new knitting patterns to share with all later ,,,,, mirjam |
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suzee wrote in
: The imminent death of usenet has been predicted since about 1992. Certain news providers are dropping it in response to pressure from state and federal government to eliminate porn. Which is an all or nothing attitude; if they simply dropped only the alt.* heierarchy groups, that would seriously curtail porn propagation without affecting thousands, or millions of users. There are several free new providers out there where all you have to do is sign up with a valid email address. actually, if they just dropped *binaries*, it would curtail it. alt. groups are just text, like the rec. groups. lee -- Last night while sitting in my chair I pinged a host that wasn't there It wasn't there again today The host resolved to NSA. |
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enigma wrote:
suzee wrote in : The imminent death of usenet has been predicted since about 1992. Certain news providers are dropping it in response to pressure from state and federal government to eliminate porn. Which is an all or nothing attitude; if they simply dropped only the alt.* heierarchy groups, that would seriously curtail porn propagation without affecting thousands, or millions of users. There are several free new providers out there where all you have to do is sign up with a valid email address. actually, if they just dropped *binaries*, it would curtail it. alt. groups are just text, like the rec. groups. Actually, yes, that's true. But a lot of ISPs are looking for an excuse to dump newsgroups, they don't find it cost-effective to run an additional server and people to pay attention to it, and think a lot of their customers don't use it anyway. |
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On Sep 21, 6:51*pm, "Shillelagh" wrote:
This information was posted on a figure skating group I read. *The woman who posted it is very computer literate, and I thought you might be interested. She titled her post "Imminent Death of Usenet Predicted" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------*--------- Just wanted to warn anyone who's still listening here that this month's posting of the Competitive Figure Skating FAQ to this group will be the last one. My ISP (Comcast cable) has announced they are no longer going to provide access to Usenet newsgroups, effective next month. *I understand that this is due to New York blaming Usenet for spreading child pornography, and that other large ISPs (Time Warner cable, etc) have already caved in and pulled the plug as well. I've thought about it for a bit, and decided it's not worthwhile for me to buy a pay subscription to a service like Giganews. *There are only a few other groups I follow anymore, and I rarely post. *RSSIF, in particular, already seems to have lost a critical mass of posters for it to be an interesting and worthwhile place to chat with fellow skatefans. *With more large chunks of the online community losing Usenet access now, I think the situation is only going to deteriorate further. *There's not much point in paying $7.95/month to talk to people who aren't there any longer. I'm aware that Google provides a free web-based Usenet gateway for both reading and posting. *Apparently, though, most "real" Usenet services ignore articles posted from Google, so this doesn't seem like a practical alternative for posting the FAQ. *Also, the scripts I use to produce the FAQ won't work with Google's interface, and I'm not keen on committing to do the extra work of posting it by hand if no one is listening anyway -------------------------------------------------------------------- Interesting. But I have been using Google ever since I moved to Montreal, and, while not ideal it works for me. Thanks, Shelagh. TTFN Katherine |
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