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Feranija[_2_] Feranija[_2_] is offline
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Default Usenet going out of fashion

On 27/11/11 09:10, George wrote:

>> 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...



Cox Communictions, AOL, and Time Warner Cable too dropped Usenet
alltogether citing high maintainance cost and low consumers' interest
in newsgroups.
Although there are independent free and commercial Usenet providers,
tens of millions of people only in U.S. have lost access to
newsgroups from their ISPs. They have massivelly migrated to web forums.