From: G6JPG-255@255soft.uk
In message , Evertjan.
writes:
>Steve Hayes wrote on 04 Jan 2019 in
>soc.genealogy.britain:
>
>> On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 11:05:00 +0100, Athel Cornish-Bowden
>> wrote:
>>
>>>You don't need Google Groups for that. Anyone who knows about Usenet
(As someone else said, that's now a vanishingly tiny proportion of those
who use the internet - especially of those who use the web.)
>>>can find this group by searching through the complete list of groups.
>>>That's how I found it.
>
>There is, I suspect,
>no such thing as a "complete list of Usenet Newsgroups".
(-: I suspect he means the list offered by his news client, which is
probably an agglomeration of the lists offered by the news servers he
uses.
>
>> Except that a lot of ISPs who claim to offer a "full" Internet service
I haven't seen the expression 'a "full" Internet service' for years - if
ever (-:. These days, they tend to just call it "broadband". Some don't
even offer email! (Some - I think PlusNet is one - have email available
but only if [new customers this is] you ask for it when signing up.)
>> seem to have dropped support for news and no longer have a news
>> server, leaving many people with no option but to find an external
>> server, if they even know that such things exist.
>
>Lack of navigational knowledge should be countered by providing routing
>information, not by offering inferior detours.
>
JPG
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