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Requiem for Usenet
xoip writes "Jack Kapica at The Globe and Mail reports that '[Canadian ISP] Rogers is removing [Usenet] service without changing its rates, suggesting subscribers turn to portal technology controlled by Rogers/Yahoo, or to subscribe to an outside Usenet service -- at extra cost.'" From the article: "Aside from being based on the written word, which many game-playing kids would rather not make the effort to compose, Usenet is deeply flawed. Its democratic dream offers no defence against viruses, spammers, criminals, hucksters or deranged individuals. Rummaging about in Usenet is like slumming through the tenderloin district during the plague years -- your chances of catching a computer virus or a handful of invitations to unspeakable sexual acts is much greater than finding what you were looking for in the first place."
yikes, thank GOD i dont go there..
usenet folks must be freaks and wierdos!
yup.
Only a mential retard get's a virus or trojan from usenet, it's not like usenet readers are like a microsoft product that opens and runs something the second you read it.
But, I have heard that thet is an upcoming option in Vista.
Who was the asshat who downmodded the parent into oblivion? I bet it was that fucknut Zonk himself.
TMM raises a valid point, right after we read a story in Wired about how 'digg might bury slashdot', Zonk goes and posts a story that's been in discussion at digg for over a week.
'News for Nerds', my ass. Congrats, Zonk...slashdot is dying, and you're holding the pillow over its face.