| SPIN correction, A notice to customers by Verizon informs them that the telco will be discontinuing newsgroup service as of September 30. "Newsgroups were initially developed as a text-based way to share information on the Internet," Verizon informs customers in the alert. (then it evolved into what people wanted, just like everything else)
"Today, demand for newsgroups is much lower, since most users have switched to more exciting ways of getting and sharing information via the Web, such as social networks, email and sites such as our Verizon Central Newsroom." (say WHAT? take away most of the groups, and people WILL switch to a pay newsserver, WHICH, by the way, are VERY much in demand, and have MANY thousands of users, and are doing quite well). it seems VERIZON is trying to put a spin on the situation, like people don't want to use newsgropus anymore!. |
