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AOL Kills Usenet Access
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?"
It looks like September did end, after all.
Sorry folks, couldn't help it.
"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"
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.
> 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.
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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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.
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