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Another Nail In Usenet's Coffin?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-usenet dept.

Karamchand writes "Today news.individual.net in an email to its more than 250.000 registered users announced that they won't be able to continue offering free Usenet access. While it provided text-only groups many people relied on individual.net's service to take part in one of the Internet's older services. In a time were a working news server is not a selling point for ISPs and most internet users never heard about this service, will this be another nail in the coffin of Usenet?"

12 of 482 comments (clear)

  1. What? by jim_v2000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's this Usenet thing again?

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    1. Re:What? by nizo · · Score: 5, Funny

      It is like email only spammier. Viva el spam!

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    2. Re:What? by rlp · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's some sort of primitive RSS interface for a group blog. :-)

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    3. Re:What? by IronChef · · Score: 4, Funny

      we're all discussing this on alt.usenet.crying.bye.bye.bye.

  2. Let's hope it goes away... by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and takes with it those stupid posts to alt.drugs I wrote in college...

  3. Re:Death of Usenet predicted! Film at 11. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're old.

  4. Re:Why be so dramatic? by js7a · · Score: 4, Funny

    Heh. More articles claiming a service linked to from the front page of Google.com is suffering, please! [tt]

  5. that's not all... by mz001b · · Score: 4, Funny
    they also stated that they will discontinue gopher access, since this new world wide web thing looks like it may take off.

    seriously, usenet still is one of the best ways to exchange information with people on a specific subject. Some of the comp.lang ones are quite good.

  6. Re:Why be so dramatic? by cnettel · · Score: 5, Funny
    There are plenty of good groups on usenet with loyal posters - it's like trying to kill fortran - it'll only happen over dead bodies..
    Yeah, but in case you haven't noticed, the Fortran coders aren't getting any younger... So, dead bodies, true - not happen, false. :-)
  7. April what? by OECD · · Score: 4, Funny

    Effective from April 1th, 2005, all non-converted accounts will stop working.

    And they want us to take this seriously?

    Man, a day of awful joke stories on /. AND free usenet stops working? Worst April 1st ever...

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  8. Re:Google Groups by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny
    You really think Usenet is dying? Anyone got the link to netcraft?

    There's only one way to tell for sure if usenet is truly dying.

    Count the number of posts to usenet that mention usenet.

  9. The Ghost of Usenet Postings Past by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    Suddenly, just as Paul was about to clinch the job interview...