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AOL: dropping ngs
Hi Y'all, just to pass along the news that AOL is dropping their
newsgroup reader service. "...discontinued in early 2005", their message says. Oh, they also apologize for the inconvenience. They must have read too many Douglas Adams novels. later, ron |
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yodedude2 wrote: Hi Y'all, just to pass along the news that AOL is dropping their newsgroup reader service. "...discontinued in early 2005", their message says. Oh, they also apologize for the inconvenience. They must have read too many Douglas Adams novels. later, ron You will see more and more of that, newsreaders are obsolete, now that the new Google interface is up and running |
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On 27 Jan 2005 04:41:17 -0800, "yodedude2" wrote:
Hi Y'all, just to pass along the news that AOL is dropping their newsgroup reader service. "...discontinued in early 2005", their message says. Oh, they also apologize for the inconvenience. They must have read too many Douglas Adams novels. snip AOHell's mismanagement continues unabated. Many internet pundits are deciphering AOHell's action to be exactly the same as their attempts to cut off access to IRC awhile back...they view the Internet as "competition." AOHell is a repository for the clueless, a sort of "Internet for Dummies." Those who are truly clueless can't figure out how to do anything other than load their bloatware and do whatever AOHell tells them to do...sort of like "goo goo groopz." Actually, I welcome AOHell's dumping of Usenet access...it means less trolls and spammers! Now, if we could only get rid of "goo goo groopz," we'd have it made. AOHell has for years yielded to desires of right wing extremists, who view Usenet as an "evil empire." Note how ****ed off right wing trolls get when the other side kicks them in the teeth with facts. Usenet's OK with them...as long as no one talks back to them. You'll also note AOHell's unevenly and selectively enforced TOS policies have not won them any fans of Internet users, either. With their membership sinking at the rate of about 40K members per month, the future doesn't look good for AOHell at all, and I suspect Time/Warner is indeed positioning to "spin them off"...which, translated from corporate-assholespeak, means "kill them off." This boneheaded Usenet move will just accellerate the exodus and hasten AOHell's demise. dB |
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You will see more and more of that, newsreaders are obsolete, now that
the new Google interface is up and running Continually repeating this does not make it so. Using a website to access a newsgroup is like going around the block to get next door. --Bob Farace "I only believe in fire." --Anais Nin |
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I disagree, using a website gives you TOTAL control, to delete/edit
posts, and ban any troublemakers, and also ban their ISP's so they can't even VIEW the site... And not to mention, the graphics and private messaging available, and members' lists, etc. You guys are living in 1981 net times...wake up, smell the coffee. Usenet is the Model T of the net world. |
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On 27 Jan 2005 13:44:36 -0800, "tracker that smells"
wrote: I disagree, using a website gives you TOTAL control, to delete/edit posts, and ban any troublemakers, and also ban their ISP's so they can't even VIEW the site... snip LMAO! What a moron. Shut the **** up, Noodles. |
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ROTFLMAO ! I'm a moron, my name is Bob Scarredbutthole, I'm an unemployed, senile old man from Arizona, living off the government cash cow of welfare and disability checks. |
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On 28 Jan 2005 08:16:18 -0800, "DeserTBob"
wrote: ROTFLMAO ! I'm a moron snip You're absolutely correct here, Noodles. You are indeed a moron. Shut the **** up, Noodles. |
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