Microsoft doesn't like ClassicCmp?

At 08:53 AM 1/22/2006, Scott Stevens wrote: Early Usenet was not without its debates, especially over which set of greybeards would determine which groups were recognized by major hosts and how those groups were named. Google isn't "hoarding" Usenet. They're just one of the very few companies who treat it as valuable. For that matter, given the effort it took for them to find the ancient archives that they did preserve, apparently many other people did not value those old postings (in toto) as a very few of us do today. Most other companies (such as ISPs) no longer value it. You might as well complain about why DEC and Sun and your local university aren't supporting a server and a feed. Gone are the days when you can expect your ISP to provide a news feed and server. But you're still free to set up your own feed and server, no? If you can find someone to peer it to you. Long gone are the days when one person could spend a few hours and read everything that was posted to every group on Usenet that day. More apropo Entourage, it seems like a reasonably nice Mac version of Outlook. It wouldn't surprise me if it was slightly different in obscure header handling. I've grown despondent about the hope of finding a decent replacement for Eudora/Win. The company seems to be going down the tubes in quality and support. I want something that'll handle a gig or two of mailboxes without hiccup. - John