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

[marc]

Jay Daniels wrote:

> 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."

What has a lame ISP's commercial decision to reduce its service got to
do with usenet dying?

> OVERHEAD and full of SPAM and JUNK, a good enough reason, no?

By that reasoning, I presume you also believe that email is dead?

> Also full 
> of ILLEGAL porn and other illegal stuff PIRATED software, virus, 
> trojans, all sitting on company servers.

By that reasoning, I presume you also believe that the interwebs are
dead?

I'd get yourself an education to avoid a life flipping burgers. It might
not be too late.