An example for my use of Usenet is Adobe forums which I read in the newsgroup reader. I have several software discussion newsgroups I prefer to use the newsgroup format to read as it is much faster that reading a web discussion board thread than a newsgroup posting which act's like a threaded email discussion. In beta testing a prefer the newsgroup posting also. I use Unison great reader easy to use and very Mac like.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lee Larson Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 12:58 PM To: Macintosh topics Subject: Re: [MacGroup] Bellsouth drops newsgroups 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 _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be September 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
