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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?"

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  1. Why be so dramatic? by Ckwop · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Usenet will be here for another 20 years.. These stories about the "death" of these things are hugely over-rated.

    Next it'll be that AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN messenger are killing IRC.

    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..

    Simon.

  2. Hasn't Usenet been about to die for years, but... by whoever57 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    there are more newsgroups than ever. This is just one free service. There are still other free services -- just because one company can't compete does not mean the medium is dying.

    --
    The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
  3. Re:Google Groups by Old+Wolf · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google groups, fine? What planet are you on.

    It's beyond me how they can't hire a programmer who knows how to make the text that the poster types, appear without being mangled! (newlines inserted, newlines deleted, lines of the new post interpreted as quoted text from the old...

    Also it's annoying to see a reply listed in the tree view as the parent of the post that it's replying to, or a reply listed as a child of a previous reply to the same parent.

    Not to mention the un-intuitive user interface which encourages posting without quoting the parent.