I have been saving a bunch of the posts on newservers from this group. I
will now sit down and review them. Big, scumbag, bloodsucking comcast is
cutting me off. Any chance they will give me a discount for yanking
newsgroups away from me?
Oh well, life goes on. In terms of all the things that can happen to me,
this is small potatoes. I just worry that newsgroups, per se will not
survive. If access to them is restricted much more, who knows what will
happen over the next few years?
"dadiOH" wrote
> Lee Michaels wrote:
>
>> Oh well, life goes on. In terms of all the things that can happen to
>> me, this is small potatoes. I just worry that newsgroups, per se
>> will not survive. If access to them is restricted much more, who
>> knows what will happen over the next few years?
>
> They aren't restricted, just that various ISPs quit including a free news
> server when you used them for your ISP.
>
The sheer number of people who no longer have easy, free access to
newsgroups will severely restrict the pool of folk who may want to access
newsgroups. Without this base, newsgroups will shrink and die. It is
already happening.
On 9/18/08 2:27 PMSep 18, "dpb" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lee Michaels wrote:
>
>> The sheer number of people who no longer have easy, free access to
>> newsgroups will severely restrict the pool of folk who may want to access
>> newsgroups. Without this base, newsgroups will shrink and die. It is
>> already happening.
> ...
>
> That actually is probably _a_good_thing (tm). It should cut down on a
> lot of the trash and leave a higher S/N ratio.
Except that it leaves the free services such as Google, we we all know the
quality of posts from there.
Lee Michaels wrote:
> I have been saving a bunch of the posts on newservers from this
> group. I will now sit down and review them. Big, scumbag,
> bloodsucking comcast is cutting me off. Any chance they will give me
> a discount for yanking newsgroups away from me?
Not likely they charged you for them in the first place.
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> Oh well, life goes on. In terms of all the things that can happen to
> me, this is small potatoes. I just worry that newsgroups, per se
> will not survive. If access to them is restricted much more, who
> knows what will happen over the next few years?
They aren't restricted, just that various ISPs quit including a free news
server when you used them for your ISP.
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Lee Michaels wrote:
...
> The sheer number of people who no longer have easy, free access to
> newsgroups will severely restrict the pool of folk who may want to access
> newsgroups. Without this base, newsgroups will shrink and die. It is
> already happening.
...
That actually is probably _a_good_thing (tm). It should cut down on a
lot of the trash and leave a higher S/N ratio.
usenet was around long before the advent of the browser and will
continue. It might even revert to something more resembling its
original scope/intent and value.
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On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:12:50 -0400, "Lee Michaels"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>"dadiOH" wrote
>
>> Lee Michaels wrote:
>>
>>> Oh well, life goes on. In terms of all the things that can happen to
>>> me, this is small potatoes. I just worry that newsgroups, per se
>>> will not survive. If access to them is restricted much more, who
>>> knows what will happen over the next few years?
>>
>> They aren't restricted, just that various ISPs quit including a free news
>> server when you used them for your ISP.
>>
>The sheer number of people who no longer have easy, free access to
>newsgroups will severely restrict the pool of folk who may want to access
>newsgroups. Without this base, newsgroups will shrink and die. It is
>already happening.
>
>
Usenet participation has been on the wane for some time for other
reasons. Meanwhile, there are other avenues to Usenet access, both for
free, and commercially.
AIOE.org doesn't even require you to register, sign up or give them
your email address. You just use their server. They only carry text
based groups, and they limit you to 25 posts per 24 hour period.
That's plenty for most people.
Go to www.aioe.org for the settings you need to configure your news
reader.
There are also free news servers that require some sort of
registration, but do not charge anything, such as motzarella.org
Finally there are commercial services, such as newsguy.com, who have
plans starting at about $3 a month for access to all groups including
binaries. The prices of the plans depend on how many megabytes you
want to download per month. If you only occasionally download a few
pictures or small files, and mostly do text groups such as this one,
the cheapest plan is plenty. They roll over any megabytes you don't
use, so you eventually build up a reserve that will allow you to
download something big, such as a movie.