uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US

Fri Mar 30 22:03:58 UTC 2012

> >>                             I thought it should have died when pr0n and
> >> w4rez took it over (in the late 90's).. 
> 
> Many of the tech groups remain quite healthy.  I still moderate
> comp.compilers which gets about 100 posts/month.

Those of us still doing work with USENET know that it isn't dead, far
from it, but we're aware that there's a certain amount of illicit
traffic.

It's kind of like the way that pr0n and w4rez dominate all the Internet,
but this doesn't seem to faze Internet network operators.

> Actually, it's fine with us that the ignorant masses think that usenet
> is dead, since it tends to keep out the riffraff.

And that's the difference between USENET and the Internet; we've 
largely gotten our nice messaging network back now that all the AOL
newbies are instead attracted to all the forums and blogs of the
Internet; running a newsreader client is needlessly complex and may
be beyond some of them.

:-)

... JG
-- 
Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
"We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I
won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN)
With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.