On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 13:06:07 GMT, "jeffc" wrote:


"Ook" Ook Don't send me any freakin' spam at zootal dot com delete the
Don't send me any freakin' spam wrote in message
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Usenet may be fading away

It is?

Sure is. I've lived in my house for 20 years- and I've been on Usenet
for 11. I hope I live to be 100 so I can see whether the road out
front goes 4-lane, or Usenet dies first. Both have been 'imminent'
since I've known them.

Jim
[I had to search googlegroups for "death of usenet" -- It was being
predicted in 1985-
http://groups.google.com/group/net.n...c09956ca0e173d

Joked about as "the imminent death of Usenet" by 1989-
http://groups.google.com/group/news....a511a8f54861ce
and became the acronym IDOUP by the end of the year
http://groups.google.com/group/news....5 f11a549be06