From: garym@mcgath.com   
      
   On 2/4/24 9:56 PM, Keith F. Lynch wrote:   
   > kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) quoted:   
   >> sybershock's sysadmin posted this gem:   
   >>> From: SugarBug <3883@sugar.bug>   
   >   
   >>> Google and other large Usenet providers have suborned a non-stop   
   >>> flood of zillions and bazillions of spam articles over the years,   
   >>> making newsgroups unusable for many end-users, causing much   
   >>> exodus from the Usenet network.  Some believe that this was not   
   >>> incompetence or negligence, but intentional malice disguised as   
   >>> incompetence and negligence.   
   >   
   > This never made sense to me.  Why would any corporation *want*   
   > to appear incompetent or negligent?  That's a sure way to drive   
   > away current and potential customers, investors, advertisers, and   
   > employees.   
   >   
   > 2/22 isn't the end of Usenet.  But it may be the beginning of the   
   > end of Google.   
      
   Catastrophic endings make good press. Several years ago, Google dropped   
   its RSS reader. There were many proclamations of the end of RSS. When   
   the last patents on MP3 expired, the MP3 Consortium stopped demanding   
   royalties, as it had to. Several supposedly respectable news sources   
   claimed it had declared MP3 obsolete.   
      
      
   People are still using RSS and MP3 the last I checked.   
      
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   Gary McGath    http://www.mcgath.com   
      
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