Re: Newsgroups are part of the Internet in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20596394 en Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:08:00 EDT Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:08:00 EDT Re: Newsgroups are part of the Internet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20607088 anon : Google has ruined Usenet by allowing free range spammers.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20607088 Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:14:40 EDT Re: Newsgroups are part of the Internet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20602791 patcat88 :
said by BF69 See Profile :

said by bgraham See Profile :

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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20602791 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:26:01 EDT Re: Newsgroups are part of the Internet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20599844 anon :
said by BF69 See Profile :

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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20599844 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:15:25 EDT Re: Newsgroups are part of the Internet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20599304 old_dawg :
said by BF69 See Profile :

said by bgraham See Profile :

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. :) ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20599304 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:35:11 EDT Re: Newsgroups are part of the Internet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20598996 Homer J : 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

Homer J]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20598996 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:16:24 EDT Re: Newsgroups are part of the Internet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20598522 Qumahlin : 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.
--
Forum Posts:7500]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20598522 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:32:31 EDT Re: Newsgroups are part of the Internet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20597309 battleop : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20597309 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:26:26 EDT Re: Newsgroups are part of the Internet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20596394 BF69 :
said by bgraham See Profile :

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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20596394 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:36:24 EDT Re: Newsgroups are part of the Internet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20595452 djrobx : 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. :)
--
Laser eye surgery rocks! I love frickin' laser beams.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20595452 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:40:33 EDT Re: Newsgroups are part of the Internet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20594774 battleop : "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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20594774 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:19:09 EDT Newsgroups are part of the Internet http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20594601 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20594601 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:30:26 EDT