battleop
join:2005-09-28
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| reply to bgraham
Re: Newsgroups are part of the Internet
"I guess that 99% of mom and pop internet users do not even know they exist so they will get very few complaints."
When we signed people up I used to tell people about newsgroup access. I used to hear replies like "Oh you mean like CNN?" After a while I gave up on anyone understanding or knowing what newsgroups are and just stopped telling people about it.
We dropped our newsgroups several years ago. I didn't want it to happen but then I was asked for the number of people who used newsgroups. When I looked at the usage and divided out the cost of offering newsgroups by the number of people that were using newsgroups it worked out that each user was costing two to three times what they were paying for service. |
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djrobx
join:2000-05-31
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| I've enjoyed it while it lasted, but I can't say I'm surprised with TW's decision at all. Most legitimate Usenet purposes can still be done by Google Groups.
Hey TW: You better get SciFi HD now. I've used your newsgroups to acquire the HD versions of Battlestar Galactica. The "other" way to get it is to just switch to DirecTV. 
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battleop
join:2005-09-28
00000 | I was probably the only one that used newsgroups on a regular basis. It was cheaper for me to get a giganews account instead of running the stuff we had. |
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