jmcquown wrote:
>
> Most teens have never *heard* of usenet/newsgroups, unless perhaps mommy or
> daddy have access. Hell, some alleged IT people have never heard of them,
> either. I remember when we got a new guy in IT, he was (at the very least)
> in his forties. He maintained the mail servers. The option to d/l
> subscribe to newsgroups was turned off (IIRC we were all using Outlook, not
> OE, but there was the button for ng's. It was disabled. I mentioned to him
> I'd like to be able to read newsgroups on my lunch hour. He gave me a blank
> look. "Newsgroups?". Yes, newsgroups. He had no idea what I was talking
> about.

I agree with you, Jill. Everyone has computers now but very few people I
know know about usenet. Anytime I talk about usenet or my newsgroups, I
have to explain to them what I'm talking about. It's even worse now that
most isps have discontinued support for usenet.

Gary