On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:50:19 -0500, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:42:15 -0600, bbq > wrote:
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>>laugh.
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>>Part of the reason usenet appears to be dying is there are many, many
>>websites devoted to hobbies of anything you can imagine. Those under 30
>>may not even be aware of usenet.
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>A bigger reason is that may ISPs have taken down the USENET servers.
>Many were lost when ATT and Verizon decided to no longer handle them
>and people did not want to or know how to go to a news service.

Too true, many people I talk to don't even know what a news service
is! I often have to explain it and they always want to compare it to a
blog.






Shinglhed
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible
warning.