Author Topic: Are Newsgroups gone for ever?  (Read 2243 times)

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Are Newsgroups gone for ever?
« on: September 16, 2008, 02:47:13 AM »
I wasn't even noticed,  but my ISP put on its web site it was offering no more news server because "it was doomed" and a thing of the past. Effective September 9 th 2008. So no more malwares, pornography, child pornography and every bad thing you can think of. I think the cons were so many the pros are tiny with Newsgroups. The Mormons are going to be happy. There is still the possibility to subscribe to a paying fee usenet but who is going to use that. Newsgroups were popular in the nineties because they were FREE, I think.
I guess only the microsoft USENET is still alive :o

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Re: Are Newsgroups gone for ever?
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2008, 03:05:28 AM »
Usenet isn't dead by a long shot, what you are describing is your ISP not offering connection to it, it will still be there.

This google search only returns 3.67 million hits, http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=free+newsgroup+service

I don't use them very often and haven't bothered subscribing since I got my new system, byt at the last count there were over 65,000 different Usenet groups, hardly dead.
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