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John DeBoo wrote:
Bob wrote:



Wrote complaint to Rogers about not getting at least a discount since
they were canceling a service which as far as I'm concerned was part
of the contract when I signed up and for which I now have to pay -
received the usual corporate form letter response - no rebate because
nobody uses newsgroups anymore !

Wow, those assholes are really out of touch with whats going on!
John

Unfortunately, they _are_, in large part, correct.

The portion of the customers of _any_ major ISP that knows that USENET
even _exists_ is *tiny*. People that have been introduced to the 'net
in the last five years are almost guaranteed to 'know' that the Internet
consists of only two capabilities: e-mail, and "the web". And probably
a full one-third of _those_ only know how to access e-mail via the web.o

for a consumer ISP, 'HTTP' (including 'HTTPS') traffic constitutes the
*overwhelming* majority of the bytes that go through their network.
"Overwhelming", meaning on the order of 90%, _or_higher_.

We *are* a bunch of dinosaurs!