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   In article , Bert Hyman   
    wrote:   
   > In   
   > news:0e264f82-26d5-4cba-ae3f-b0a347225ccc@j25g2000yqa.googlegroups.com   
   > Scott Eiler  wrote:   
   >   
   > > Actually, that's about what Google Groups is doing with Usenet.  So   
   > > many ISPs have given up Usenet newsfeeds, Google practically owns   
   > > Usenet now.   
   >   
   > ISPs have dropped USENET support ostensibly for legal reasons (NY   
   > then-Attorney General Cuomo claiming it was a conduit for child porn),   
   > but it's more likely financial; there's no money in it for most of them.   
      
   Also few people even know Usenet exists.   
      
   ISPs in general are becoming lazier and lazier, offering fewer services.   
   They are moving towards simply providing an Internet connnection, with it   
   being up to the user to supply their own email, newsgroup, etc. services.   
   Meanwhile, prices continue to rise, but we get less actual service (and in   
   the case of Vodafone New Zealand, often no service at all!).  :-(   
      
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