Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 06:49:57 -0400 From: Quartz <quartz@sneakertech.com> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: The future of USENET? Message-ID: <5152CED5.20005@sneakertech.com> In-Reply-To: <20130327094925.GA2867@tinyCurrent> References: <20130327094925.GA2867@tinyCurrent>
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>Is USENET coming to its end? Yes, for better or worse. It's been a slow downward spiral since the late 90's. I can't speak for other countries, but in the US the majority of ISPs started dropping access as a cost cutting measure since your average layman didn't really understand or use it. Younger generations in turn never knew it existed and ended up reinventing most of the functionality with web forums. Not helping matters is that, due to a couple isolated cases, the news media ignorantly view usenet as a haven for child porn and pirate movies, so there's increasing clamor to shut it down. There were a few 3rd party companies here and there that offered dedicated access, but most of them have closed up shop by this point due to social/political pressure. ______________________________________ it has a certain smooth-brained appeal
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