27 May
2005
27 May
'05
4:39 p.m.
Nobody uses Usenet any more (much to my own personal
chagrin as I found it
very useful for many things, as I'm sure others did/do).
As someone who has maintained the spies.com newsfeed for 10+ years,
we've lost two big news feeds in the past year (SGI and Apple).
Apple dropped news connectivity at the end of last year because they
were no longer willing to pay for the connectivity cost, and there
were less than 100 people reading news in the whole company.
SGI just disappeared one day, never did hear why.
This is a drag...
I prefer being able to quickly scan 20+ USENET groups
over N+ web URLs.