mac davis wrote in
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On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:22:46 -0400, Jack Stein
wrote:

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So are you saying Comcast and Verizon will drop Usenet because they
can't afford the storage?
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My take is that affording it is not the issue, but return on
investment/labor..

When I'm in a group of folks talking about "news groups", they all
think I'm talking about browser based "forums"...
I doubt that a very large percentage of ISP customers even KNOW that
Usenet even exists..

If I ran an ISP, I'd look at what it costs in
equipment/labor/support/etc. and probably drop it or, as Comcast did,
farm it out..

mac

Verizon cut way down on their usenet. As I understood it, it was mainly
a one-man job, ossibly only part-time, but that may just show how little
I know about the nuts and bolts of the job. Now with more than 90% of
storage requirements and to 98% of administration eliminated, it almost
certainly is only a one man part-time job.

Still, I do not expect Verizon to keep usenet all that much longer,
especially not if I have underestimated the manpower required.

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Han
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