In article >,
Krypsis > wrote:

> For the past few days I haven't had usenet access. Didn't think much of
> it at first as there are occasional outages but after 2 or 3 days I
> called the helpdesk at my ISP. The helpdesk lady had no idea what I was
> talking about when I mentioned usenet news. She also wasn't a lot of
> help. 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.
> I much prefer the ease of use and simplicity of a local client like
> Thunderbird or Agent. I can only hope that eternal-september will
> survive for a few more years.

Usenet's been out of fashion for 10 or so years.

Miche

--
Electricians do it in three phases