The Death of Usenet, part 237
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From: Rowland McDonnell on 6 May 2010 13:23 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > R <me32(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/05/ms_kills_groups/> > >> > >> "Microsoft is killing off its newsgroups and encouraging users to move to > >> forums instead. > >> > >> The software giant has over 2,000 public groups covering its various > >> products, as well as 2,200 private groups for the likes of Microsoft > >> resellers. But from June 2010 these will be moved to revamped forums on > >> TechNet, MSDN and Microsoft Answers." > > > > Should a plan B for ucsm be under consideration in case > > the worst happens? > > Not for a while I'd have thought. Usenet might be slowly on its way out, > but it's not dead yet. > > Give it five years and things might be a bit more serious. Five years, it'll all be totally different. I don't think Usenet will become totally extinct. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Jochem Huhmann on 6 May 2010 13:37 peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd) writes: > Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >>> Subject: Re: MS nttp bridge anyone try it > >>> >Curious to hear how it works, good/bad > >>> Very, very bad. > >> So that's no great surprise. > > I don't think I've ever seen a nice bidirectional web forum <-> nntp > bridge/gateway. http://gmane.org does forums <-> nntp <--> mailing lists and works rather nicely. In fact I read most mailing lists with my newsreader this way. Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: Peter Constantine on 6 May 2010 13:56 Rowland wrote: > > Give it five years and things might be a bit more serious. > > Five years, it'll all be totally different. > > I don't think Usenet will become totally extinct. I don't think Usenet will become more serious. x
From: Jim on 7 May 2010 11:03 On 2010-05-07, Sn!pe <snipe(a)spambin.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: >> > Should a plan B for ucsm be under consideration in case >> > the worst happens? >> >> Not for a while I'd have thought. Usenet might be slowly on its way out, >> but it's not dead yet. >> >> Give it five years and things might be a bit more serious. > > The Germans are still very keen on Usenet, to the point of running > several free text-only news-servers*. I think it will be a long time > before they give up on the old horse. > > > * e.g.: Eternal-September; Abasani; Solani; Datemas. > See also Individual for a good cheap pay service. Yes, I use Individual, but they themselves have noticed a significant decline in traffic. If it continues then it'll only be a matter of time. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash.
From: Jochem Huhmann on 7 May 2010 11:31
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> writes: > Yes, I use Individual, but they themselves have noticed a significant > decline in traffic. If it continues then it'll only be a matter of time. The point is that Usenet is not something you can switch off easily. As long as there are NNTP servers out there, there's Usenet around. It will just die a very, very slow death. If you want to compare Usenet to the real world it's like a non-commercial public place which needs people caring for it and seeing the value of it without making a profit or owning the place. And if you look around in the real world you will find that such places aren't exactly booming there also. Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery |