[nntp going down in the history books with aol!] was Re: News Reader Question

[Jay Daniels]

NoOp wrote:
> On 07/02/2009 07:03 PM, Jay Daniels wrote:
> ...
>> I thought nntp died years ago.  Replaced by web forums (along with 
>> mailing list) in which the moderators have somewhat control over. 
>> idiots killed the news servers.
>>
>> dead protocols:  nntp aka news, gopher, archie, plain text telnet 
>> (except for local servers), and others?
>>
>> plain static html sites are almost dead.
>>
>> I recommend you use firefox to read mail from a news to web gateway 
>> site.  I think it will be much faster.
>>
>> nntp going down in the history books with aol!
> 
> Are you serious?
> 
> 
> 

"Please note that on or around July 15, 2009, AT&T will no longer be
offering access to the Usenet Netnews service.  If you wish to continue
reading Usenet newsgroups, access is available through third-party vendors."

Many others too many to list...

OVERHEAD and full of SPAM and JUNK, a good enough reason, no?  Also full 
of ILLEGAL porn and other illegal stuff PIRATED software, virus, 
trojans, all sitting on company servers.

I got one word for ya, Liability!  The lawyers are foaming at the mouth!

Good riddance


jay