Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Rod wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Seems so few use news these days that it's not a problem for most - and
therefore those ISPs won't miss the few customers who change because of
it. Allegedly.

Considering the online population has gone from a (relative) handful to
a large proportion of the country's population, you only need an
incredibly tiny percentage to use Usenet for the actual numbers to grow.
Is it really true that the absolute numbers are so small? (Genuinely
questioning - I don't know.)

I dunno either. Just reporting what I've seen from those more
knowledgeable than myself.

Can't help wondering what would have happened if MS had put a halfway
decent newsreader in with Windows. And maybe some autoconfig doodah that
made connection settings automatic (or very nearly so).

My guess is MS are very against any free service for the community such as
Usenet.

Which makes it all the more ironic that their own newsgroups are much
easier and better read through NNTP than any interface they have dreamt
up for web-type access. But I agree. Probably mostly a case of control
rather than price...

--
Rod

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