AOL Kills Usenet Access

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday January 25, 2005 @04:45AM from the bad-times dept.

Numair writes "BetaNews is reporting that AOL is about to terminate Usenet access for its users. Now, before everyone starts rejoicing ... where is the Usenet community going to find another large media company to protect it from frivolous copyright lawsuits?"

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Wow. by kalidasa · 2005-01-25 04:46 · Score: 5, Funny

It looks like September did end, after all.

Sorry folks, couldn't help it.
1. Re:Wow. by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-25 04:54 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Use a real browser. I've found IE to be a rock solid, secure platform.
  
  Other might have differing opinions
2. Re:Wow. by HiredMan · 2005-01-25 04:58 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Me too!!!!!!!!
  
  =tkk
  
  --
  Bill Gates - Creationist?!?
3. Re:Wow. by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-25 05:10 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  If you don't understand the reference, it's referring to you !
  (In Soviet Russia...)
4. Re:Wow. by rs79 · 2005-01-25 12:52 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  > Never had that problem with MSIE!
  
  You spelled it wrong. It's "MS AAAIIIEEEEEEEE!"
  
  --
  Need Mercedes parts ?
no more me too posts by shamage · 2005-01-25 04:47 · Score: 1, Funny

What no more me to posts that we have all come to love :-)
Better late than never by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-25 04:47 · Score: 2, Funny

The september that never ended is... ending?!
AOL killed it in the first place by AutumnLeaf · 2005-01-25 04:49 · Score: 3, Funny

I was there when AOL enabled usenet access. The flood of users with no netiquette or, as it seemed to me at the time, common sense, drove me out of almost every newsgroup I followed.

And now they are leaving.

Irony.
1. Re:AOL killed it in the first place by Tackhead · 2005-01-25 04:58 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  ME TOO!
  > I was there when AOL enabled usenet access.
  > The
  > flood of users with no netiquette or, as it seemed
  > to me at
  > the time, common sense, drove me out of
  >almost
  > every newsgroup I followed.
2. Re:AOL killed it in the first place by Filmwatcher888 · 2005-01-25 05:27 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  LOL!!1!
  
  >ME TOO!
  
  >> I was there when AOL enabled usenet access. The
  >> flood of users with no netiquette or, as it eemed
  >> to me at the time, common sense, drove me out of
  >> almost every newsgroup I followed.
3. Re:AOL killed it in the first place by siskbc · 2005-01-25 06:00 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  BOB DO YOU READ THIS GROUP. SEND ME EMAIL. FOOBAR69@AOL.COM THANKS.
  blah blah lameness filter blah blah
  
  --
  -Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
a great disturbance by Fr05t · 2005-01-25 04:50 · Score: 5, Funny

"I felt a great disturbance in the Usenet, as if millions of alt.binary.xxxporn images suddenly
cried out in terror and silenced at once"
RE: I'm happy about it by doublem · 2005-01-25 04:55 · Score: 3, Funny

I'm happy to see the AOL Morons leave Usenet once and for all. I've had my news reader delete all posts involving @aol.com addresses for years.

Me Too!

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"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
Re:Whatever gets AOL off the net is fine with me. by DickBreath · 2005-01-25 04:57 · Score: 4, Funny

Want an AOL CD? Go to Burger King! They make half-decent....

For a second there, I thought you were about to suggest that an AOL CD was an ingredient in a sandwich.

--

I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
Re:Whatever gets AOL off the net is fine with me. by dsginter · 2005-01-25 05:01 · Score: 4, Funny

But I'll take anything that reduces AOL's Internet presence as a good thing for the Internet.

Me too.

A++ post! Would mod up again.

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Re:Whatever gets AOL off the net is fine with me. by EnronHaliburton2004 · 2005-01-25 05:04 · Score: 2, Funny

Want an AOL CD? Go to Burger King! They make half-decent frisbees...

Ah, but who makes better frisbees? AOL or Burger King?

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94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act
Dateline 1995 by FusionDragon2099 · 2005-01-25 05:10 · Score: 3, Funny

"In headlines today, the dreaded killfile virus spread across the country adding 'aol.com' to people's Usenet kill files everywhere. The programmer of the virus still remains anonymous, but has been nominated several times for a Nobel peace prize."
Alicia Silverstone by Profane+MuthaFucka · 2005-01-25 05:20 · Score: 3, Funny

(editor note - let's do this right. This is the authentic way that these 'mee too' threads were perpetuated. A favorite hottie of the world of 1994 was the underage star Alicia Silverstone.)

>>If you want your pictures of Alicia
>>Silverstone naked,
>>just post "me too" on this thread and
>>I will e-mail them to you.

>Me too!!!!!!!!

me too.

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Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
1. Re:Alicia Silverstone by HiredMan · 2005-01-25 06:41 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Q: How many AOLers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
  A: One.... and
  >>>>>>>>me too!!!
  >>>>>>>me to!!!111!!
  >>>>>>me too
  >>>>>me t00!
  >>>>me too!!!!!!
  >>>me too!!!!!
  >>mt!
  >me to!
  me too!!!!
  
  The best description I ever heard of unleashing AOLers on the web was something like: "On a highway of most hobbyists and homebuilt cars AOL is the giant bus belching smoke and fumes as the crazed passengers that curse and throw garbage at others on the road."
  
  =tkk
  
  --
  Bill Gates - Creationist?!?
Re:Whatever gets AOL off the net is fine with me. by iabervon · 2005-01-25 05:28 · Score: 2, Funny

Now, if we could only get them to discontinue email by blocking SMTP traffic to and from the internet...
Me too by EachLennyAPenny · 2005-01-25 05:31 · Score: 2, Funny

For those who don't get it:

<AOL>For me, too</AOL>
1. Re: Me too by Stavr0 · 2005-01-25 05:47 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  *plonk*
At the sound of the tone by Morphix84 · 2005-01-25 05:34 · Score: 2, Funny

The current Eastern Standard Datetime will be: 12:34 PM, October 1, 1993 BEEP
Re:Comcast just changed its Usenet policies as wel by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-25 05:45 · Score: 0, Funny

Or option three: You can quit beating off so much. Turn off your PC and go outside and play.
Stop sterotyping AOL users. by jthayden · 2005-01-25 07:06 · Score: 3, Funny

Oh come on, I did a search for 'me too' on google groups and it only found 4,270,000 results. Stop your whining.
1. Re:Stop sterotyping AOL users. by DirkDaring · 2005-01-25 08:39 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Me too