On Jul 12, at 12:29 PM, Edie Marta wrote:
Riddles to me--usenet? And what was cut off, and what did AT&T do again?Clarification need for a woman with a small brain.
Usenet is a collection of discussion boards that actually predates the Web. It is world-wide, and there are discussions of every topic imaginable. Most ISPs give some access to them and you can subscribe to the ones you want to read with special newsgroup readers such as MT- NewsWatcher, Thoth or even Mozilla.
Some years ago, groups such as comp.sys.mac.announce and comp.sys.mac.os were good ways to keep on top of the Maciverse. Today, comparable Web pages are more convenient. In recent years, the Usenet groups have become very irritating because they're filled with spam. The content to advertising ratio has fallen well below one in most of the popular groups, making them useless.
Many of the ISPs are dropping access to the alt groups because of ones such as alt.binary.music.mp3 and hundreds of others existing only to distribute pirated software. The RIAA and MPAA have declared war on Usenet Their lawyers are scaring the ISPs into dropping access
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