Re: Is the party over?
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:21:59 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <jm2bq6$nvs$1_at_speranza.aioe.org>
Eric wrote:
> I don't see either "hobbled" or
> "killed off".
Well Usenet would probably be valued by only a tiny number of users today, no matter what, but New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's action in 2008 (which was intended to curb access to illegal material distributed via NNTP) certainly did hobble it.
Many of the big service providers decided that rather than go to the trouble to comply with his actual request the easiest way to protect themselves was to make the problem "go away" by entirely shutting down customers' access to Usenet.
But getting back to the point: although I like Usenet I'm not overly concerned with how the discussion is hosted or relayed. I want to know if it is going on anywhere at all. Sadly you seem to think it isn't. I can't disagree with you based on the feedback here.
-- RoyReceived on Wed Apr 11 2012 - 00:21:59 CEST