People, you are just wonderful! Thanks for all the input!
Marta
On Jul 12, 2008, at 13:28 , Ed Wiser wrote:
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.
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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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