> I find that more and more companies to not support a USENET
> feed, perceiving
> that it is mostly used for personal purposes. It is seen as a
> lot of clutter
> for little benefit. It is mostly computer issues where there
> is a strong
> tradition of good USENET support, where USENET is considered a primary
> source of information. It is in computer technology, lead by
> the Internet
> Engineering Task Force (IET,) where the net and by extension
> USENET, is
> considered critical. Other businesses and technologies are
> discussed but
> secondarily.
>
> In other words a large number of people, myself included, have no easy
> access to USENET. The problem is growing. USENET is no longer
> the center of
> the Internet. Many people have never even heard of it.
> We all have access to email.
this is quite true. The Internet is _no_longer_ the Usenet, but the Usenet
is an essential part of it. Of course, as with IRC, there's a lot of abuse.
But if you say, forget about Usenet, you could as well say, forget about
ftp, smtp, and all the other little protocols that make the internet.
The Usenet will stay for quite a long time, and if only because the WWW (the
youngest part of the net) is not sufficient for that (news reading on deja
isn't really fun).
As said before, for administrators (and VNC is used primarily by
administrators I guess), Usenet is essential.
And of course, the Usenet will also be used by administrators primarily,
because they _know_ about it ;)
That's why there's mostly computer talk on usenet.
Lars
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