begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:56:13PM -0700: > Randall Shimizu wrote: > >N.Y. attorney general forces ISPs to curb Usenet access | The Iconoclast > > Usenet has taken a horrible dive in recent years. I have been reading > usenet since 1989. The groups back then were MORE active with more > useful content than they are now. Now it is all spam and much less > actual content. It seems a lot of the discussion has moved to web forums > which I find really depressing. I can't stand corresponding via web > forums. So slow and inconvenient.
There are still newsgroups out there that are doing fine; it's just that they're lost in a sea of newsgroups abandoned to the spammers and trolls. > However, I am surprised that more news servers did not drop the > alt.binaries groups ages ago due to the massive resources they take up. > I can't conceive of how they were ever worth carrying. Many of them have done so. The problem is dropping of the entire alt.* hierarchy because of what, 88 newsgroups? Maybe we can find some attorney general who will strong-arm Times-Warner into blocking port 80... -- Inappropriate measures at inopportune times. Stewart Stremler -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
