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Another Nail In Usenet's Coffin?
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?"
were where what now?
Ice Cream has no bones.
What's this Usenet thing again? Slashdot confirms: Usenet is DYING.
The year is 2008, irc is banned because computers are hardwired to individuals. This is used to prevent anouther election from being stold.
LMAO. What a pussy. He can't even post his homophobic response under his own name.
It's a terribly inefficient method for propagating information across the Internet. It's an obsolete technology in an era of the world wide web. I mean, look at it this way... for people to participate in a group your ISP has to subscribe to the group and then it has to pull all the articles from some other server which in turn pulls it from some other server and so on and so on. It could take days for your message and replies to go back and forth. With the web your comments are there instantly.