Apparently, though unproven, at 06:27 on Tuesday 07 September 2010, kashani did opine thusly:
> On 9/6/2010 4:55 PM, Al wrote: > > Well that is the first advantage of a newsreader. It does not spam > > your mailbox. You select yourself what you want to read by the header. > > The other contents are never delivered to you, eat up neither traffic > > nor space. People don't really need to complain of to much traffic. > > I'd be interested in how many people still have access to a news server > these days. I don't and I'm not particularly interested in having to pay > for access when email works well enough. > > kashani There's a public news server on my work network. My team is supposed to maintain it. Shit, I'M supposed to maintain it. I have no idea where it is, what it is, how to log into it or even what it's hostname is. It's just there, in collective memory, as something that used to was and might still be. No member of the public has asked any question about it for years (I would know - I maintain the ticket queue that support mails for news would have to go into). And this is the largest business-serving network in the country (i.e. not some small minor player ISP). If that's not a damning indictment against news, then I don't know what is. I don't know who this fellow Al is, but he seems to have a stuck idea from 10+ years ago. Gentoo doesn't have a newsgroup probably because Gentoo users do not want one. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
