ackpth
@mindspring.com | reply to Qumahlin
Re: Newsgroups are part of the Internet
Google has ruined Usenet by allowing free range spammers. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
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said by BF69  :said by bgraham :Newsgroups are part of the Internet and I have used them since the internet started. I would be mad if my ISP dropped them because I would have to subscribe to a service. I guess that 99% of mom and pop internet users do not even know they exist so they will get very few complaints. I wouldn't call myself "mom and pop" I've been on the internet for nearly 9 years now and I consider myself pretty knowledgable. I've never used a newsgroup or even been to one. Not sure what one even looks like. I really don't see what the big deal is. Enlighten me. newsgroups=old school usually unmoderated forums |
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drivebyposter
@o1.com
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said by BF69 :I wouldn't call myself "mom and pop" I've been on the internet for nearly 9 years now and I consider myself pretty knowledgable. I've never used a newsgroup or even been to one. Not sure what one even looks like. I really don't see what the big deal is. Enlighten me. It's like email but with a topic hierarchy that goes 4 (or more) levels deep. It "looks" however you want it to look (unless you're using a screen reader). All functionality is provided by the client program.
The client programs provided advanced functions still not available in most forums and blogs. For example, you could block entire threads with a single command. Most modern forums only allow you to block the poster, not the replies to their posts.
As with email, posters pick a subject line for each message. This is in addition to the group's topic. That allows conversations to split, shift, merge and reform naturally, and also allows people to block subjects that don't interest them. |
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old_dawg
"I Know Noting..."
join:2001-09-22
Westminster, MD
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said by BF69 :said by bgraham :Newsgroups are part of the Internet and I have used them since the internet started. I would be mad if my ISP dropped them because I would have to subscribe to a service. I guess that 99% of mom and pop internet users do not even know they exist so they will get very few complaints. I wouldn't call myself "mom and pop" I've been on the internet for nearly 9 years now and I consider myself pretty knowledgable. I've never used a newsgroup or even been to one. Not sure what one even looks like. I really don't see what the big deal is. Enlighten me. No offense, but it sounds contradictory to claim to be a knowledgeable nine year "veteran" of the intertubes and not know what Usenet and newsgroups are...for the record, they're in the same aisle with the ftp's and whois.  |
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Homer J
Mmmm, Free Goo
join:2000-10-05
Springfield
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Hate to say this, but if you have been on the Internet for 9 years and are not aware of what a Newgroup is, I would not call you knowledgable. They have been around a long time, and any knowledgable Internet user would know what they are.
D'oh
Just my .02
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Qumahlin
Never Enough Time
Premium,MVM
join:2001-10-05
united state
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There really is no big deal except for the people who use their ISP provided newsgroup accounts primarily for warez/movie downloads. Now those people will need to pay for that ability.
Otherwise as another poster pointed out thanks to google and a few other sites you can pretty much access newsgroups as normal via the web, and quite frankly accessing them via the web for actual discussion purposes (thier original use) is actually easier to use and makes discussions easier to follow.
As for what are newsgroups? »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
Seriously though, piracy is pretty much the only thing still driving the newsgroup industry, it's also the #1 cause of increase in costs to the newsgroup industry due to the immense amount of storage required.
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| reply to bgraham
said by bgraham :Newsgroups are part of the Internet and I have used them since the internet started. I would be mad if my ISP dropped them because I would have to subscribe to a service. I guess that 99% of mom and pop internet users do not even know they exist so they will get very few complaints. I wouldn't call myself "mom and pop" I've been on the internet for nearly 9 years now and I consider myself pretty knowledgable. I've never used a newsgroup or even been to one. Not sure what one even looks like. I really don't see what the big deal is. Enlighten me. |
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