R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008

Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four. </quote> http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/12/computer_crime...

The Usenet is nod dead, nonetheless I find that the quote might be relevant.

Does anyone that really uses Usenet these days really care if their ISP carries it? It looks to me like the major Usenet-only ISPs are doing just fine. The system is far from dead, for now.

"It's hard to completely kill off something as totally decentralized as Usenet; as long as two servers agree to share the NNTP protocol, it'll continue on in some fashion."

So... dead to the author, but not everyone.

Isn't the title of these submissions legally required to be "Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted!"?

It was too expensive to use...

"This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing.

Are you absolutely sure you want to do this? [ny]_