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   "Your Name"  wrote in message   
   news:your.name-2912101309380001@203-109-166-101.dial.dyn.ihug.co.nz...   
   > 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.   
   >   
   > Opps! I forgot to say that it's not just ISPs dropping Usenet newsgroup   
   > support. The big companies like Microsoft and Adobe are dropping the   
   > newsgroups and using their own forum-based systems (which used to include   
   > newsgroup feeds).   
      
   That's on top of the way Outlook Express's bumf gives the impression that   
   Usenet is just a system for discussing Microsoft's programs with other   
   users!   
      
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