Miche > wrote:
> 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

At Pitt university I saw a decline of students using the specific Pitt
groups about 10 years ago. It was a year ago they dropped usenet support.
Most of my usenet posts were through that port.

Greg