In article <4c09b1f7$0$28659$c3e8...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote: > >I'm sorry for all you people who don't live in a place with a genuinely >free market, and instead have to suffer with the lack of competition and >poor service of a monopoly or duopoly masquerading as a free market. But >*my* point was that your woes are not universal, and Usenet is alive and >well. It might be declining, but it's a long, slow decline and, like >Cobol, it will probably still be around a decade after the cool kids >declared it dead.
Your position is the same as mine as of about two weeks ago, before someone sent this to me: http://news.duke.edu/2010/05/usenet.html Now I think that if even a top-tier educational institution isn't willing to serve as a living museum for a technology it created, maybe the death of Usenet is closer than I'd like to think. :-( Sucks because nothing replaces a good netnews client. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it." --Dijkstra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
