On 11/27/2011 10:36 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:41:21 +1100, >
> wrote:
>
>> A couple of days later I thought I might just check the support
>> page and, sure enough, there was a statement there referring to the
>> shutdown of usenet at Optus due to declining interest and links to paid
>> usenet services from other ISPs. Well, that explained the outage, pity
>> the helpdesk weren't told!
>>
>> So I have had to move myself to eternal-september.org. At least we
>> usenet people still have a few options but I suspect those options will
>> be getting thinner on the ground as time rolls on. Web forums seem to be
>> all the rage these days but I simply don't like the needless overheads.
>
>
> The big guys, ATT and Verizon dropped newsgroups a couple of years
> ago. Sadly, we lost a lot of regular and good contributors that did
> not sign up for other services. That increase the noise to signal
> ratio too.

Not to mention comcast. But they did it for the children...