On 2 Jun 2011 at 8:30, SPC wrote:
"For many years it maintained an almost
vegetative life, but on 20
May, Duke University, Durham (USA), decided to unplug the server host
that kept it alive: Usenet, the online network of discussion groups
formally signed death . It was a precursor to the Internet, but mail,
RSS, and especially Facebook and Twitter have sustituidoel service
they provide."
Didn't Duke shut down their news server May 20 of *last year*?
It was certainly last year sometime, but since I'm still getting a lot
of posts via giganews I assume it's not affected anything :)
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adrian/witchy
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