Re: Help save usenet news for Time-Warner customers

In article <t_SdnWB49PoqOerVnZ2dnUVZ8vednZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Lesley Robertson" <l.a.robertson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
"Robert Melson" <melsonr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:YNydnSBDQLcEXO_VnZ2dnUVZ_oHinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Guess I can count myself lucky: my ISP (earthlink) merely
shopped their usenet "connections" to a 3d party, one of the
larger news-only operations. What this will mean down line is
anybody's guess, but seems to be working tolerably well for now.


The Dutch Surfnet is dropping Usenet as of 1 Aug, according to an
announcement I've seen. I'm lucky, my employer is going to retian it
for at least a year, except the binary groups.
This is beginning to look like a mass exit from the Newsgroups!
Lesley Robertson


It's not surprising, I suppose, given the present behavior of
most folks on the 'net. Newsgroups have always been something
of a free-for-all, but you now have the members of the me-generation
descending on a group like a flock of starlings and driving the
ordinary denizens away with their vulgarity, hostility and ignorance.

ISPs, when inappropriate group behavior is reported, don't seem to
give much of a damn and rarely take action, even against the worst
of the offenders, witness Google's laissez faire attitude. You have
morons like Ed Conrad who seems to get smacked down regularly and
just as regularly crops up in a new "persona".

My killfile has grown hugely in the last couple of years, yet the
noise to signal ratio keeps increasing. It's one thing to generically
killfile all messages coming in from google-groups or gmail, but
that's overkill, really, and does a disservice to the few netizens
who use those services appropriately. Same thing applies to the
anonymous/anonymizing news sites. I suspect that there would be far
less abuse of the 'groups if folks had to post under their real names
and with their real addresses.

Where's it all going to end? I think you're right but hope you're
wrong.

Sad Ol' Bob

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Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas
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Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable
reason so few engage in it. -- Henry Ford

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