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[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:56:34 -0500, Jim Byrnes wrote:

> I thought his point was they are big enough to have the resources to
> offer newsgroups but don't.  If I want fast internet I must use Comcast
> and Comcast doesn't offer newsgroups either.  Sadly is seems getting
> access to newsgroups is getting harder and harder.

I'm sorry for all you people who don't live in a place with a genuinely 
free market, and instead have to suffer with the lack of competition and 
poor service of a monopoly or duopoly masquerading as a free market. But 
*my* point was that your woes are not universal, and Usenet is alive and 
well. It might be declining, but it's a long, slow decline and, like 
Cobol, it will probably still be around a decade after the cool kids 
declared it dead.



-- 
Steven