[George's Pro Sound Company]

I use Windstream for my broadband connection but today around noon all the
newsgroups I subscribe to dissapeared from thier servers
would like to hear from other windstream users if this is a national, local,
or waat the heck is going on
I still have windstream broadband service just I have to use my peoplepc
servers to access my newsgroups

[Richard Crowley]

"Charlie Ventura" wrote ...
George's Pro Sound Company wrote:
I use Windstream for my broadband connection but today around noon all
the
newsgroups I subscribe to dissapeared from thier servers
would like to hear from other windstream users if this is a national,
local,
or waat the heck is going on
I still have windstream broadband service just I have to use my peoplepc
servers to access my newsgroups

Can't say for Windstream, but several ISP's have cut USENET groups
recently.
Verizon is one of the big ones.

Usenet is pretty much on life support at the moment.

Twitter, Blogs,social sites etc have replaced it and many of the younger
folks have no idea that Usenet even exists.

Also the binary groups put a huge load on the servers and of course the
RIAA is all over these ISPs to ditch binary groups so it seems that the
text groups like this one are going to become casualties of war.

Usenet is alive and well and living on Usenet-specific vendor servers
around the planet. Usenet is evolving from a ISP-supported service
to a specialty-provider service (and Google Groups, of course.)
The sky is not falling. That younger folks don't know that Usenet
exists appears to be a benefit, IMHO. :-) Twitter, blogs, and other
"social sites" are NOT the same functionality as Usenet newsgroups.

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On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 10:56:15 -0800, "Richard Crowley"
wrote:

"Charlie Ventura" wrote ...
George's Pro Sound Company wrote:
I use Windstream for my broadband connection but today around noon all
the
newsgroups I subscribe to dissapeared from thier servers
would like to hear from other windstream users if this is a national,
local,
or waat the heck is going on
I still have windstream broadband service just I have to use my peoplepc
servers to access my newsgroups

Can't say for Windstream, but several ISP's have cut USENET groups
recently.
Verizon is one of the big ones.

Usenet is pretty much on life support at the moment.

Twitter, Blogs,social sites etc have replaced it and many of the younger
folks have no idea that Usenet even exists.

Also the binary groups put a huge load on the servers and of course the
RIAA is all over these ISPs to ditch binary groups so it seems that the
text groups like this one are going to become casualties of war.

Usenet is alive and well and living on Usenet-specific vendor servers
around the planet. Usenet is evolving from a ISP-supported service
to a specialty-provider service (and Google Groups, of course.)
The sky is not falling. That younger folks don't know that Usenet
exists appears to be a benefit, IMHO. :-) Twitter, blogs, and other
"social sites" are NOT the same functionality as Usenet newsgroups.


I suspect there wll always be a usenet as long as there is a military.

P

[nebulax]

On Feb 9, 12:41*pm, "George's Pro Sound Company"
wrote:

I use Windstream for my broadband connection but today around noon all the
newsgroups I subscribe to dissapeared from thier servers
would like to hear from other windstream users if this is a national, local,
or waat the heck is going on
I still have windstream broadband service just I have to use my peoplepc
servers to access my newsgroups


Road Runner dropped newsgroups a few months ago, so I switched my news
server to Motzarella - http://news.motzarella.org/ .

-Neb