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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?"

8 of 482 comments (clear)

  1. fyrste poahst by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    w00t

  2. first post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    :P

  3. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  4. PF! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Pirst Fost!

  5. Usenet dead? As in BSD dead - right? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Would this be referring to the same coffin BSD is in?

  6. Slashdot is not the place to ask questions. by hoovernj · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    will this be another nail in the coffin of Usenet

    As I remember quite frankly - the last time I asked a question in a news post on slashdot, I got flamed for it.

  7. ME TOO!!! by typedef · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    n/t

  8. Re:Why be so dramatic? by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    > Disabled US vets 10 yrs after Viet Nam: 10%
    > 12 yrs after Gulf War: 89%
    > Stop uranium inhalation poisoning!

    There is NO WAY that 89% of Gulf War vets are disabled. That would be about 650,000 people and so obvious that no matter how fascist this country has become it would still be all over the news.

    According to this article the number is actually about 200,000. That's still very high at about 28% but nowhere near 89%.

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