Re: ISP vs "newsgroup server provider": [was: Re: Question for Agent (and other news reader) users]

On 13 Dec 2005 18:22:35 GMT, "Default User"
<defaultuserbr@xxxxxxxxx> said:

[...]

> That fact that they tended to make it transparent to
> the users doesn't alter the fact. AOL didn't stop being
> an ISP by dropping usenet. If they dropped web access,
> I think you'd have to say they were no longer an ISP.

No, I would say they're no longer an ISP that includes
whatever Internet service they're dropping, whether it's
Usenet access, World Wide Web access, or e-mail. An
Internet service provider that provided only e-mail would
still be an Internet service provider, just as a grocery
store that sold only Heinz 57 Varieties* would still be a
grocery store.

An entity that provided only newsgroups could still be said
to be an Internet service provider, because it would be
providing one Internet service. If someone gets e-mail from
one source, Usenet from another, and the Web from yet
another, they're using three Internet service providers to
get three Internet services, whether or not those providers
provide any other service.

Keep in mind that I'm discussing this topic from the point
of view of a Joe or Jane Sixpack who has no need to be
concerned with the jargon of technogeeks.

* (There actually used to be a store in a Utah town that
sold only Heinz products. The lady wanted to start a
grocery store and Heinz completely stocked her store free of
immediate payment. She didn't have the money to stock
anything else. I never asked, but I have little doubt she
called her establishment a grocery store.)
.

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