On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:28:32 -0800, "Avatar" wrote:

Does the MS decision to leave out Windows 7 newsgroups as well as a
newsreader in the OS a harbinger of the future?
That the UseNet is being phased out - or is dying - after almost a third of
a century?
Does MS know (and control) something we don't?
So is this also a social change dictated by technology's progress? -
That people will now forgo these discussions and instead concentrate on
'faster' means of conversation.
I don't really know where to stand on this but I feel we are witnessing
another - rather uncelebrated - change in online sociology.
Should I look forward to future newsgroups carried on Twitter someday?
Just some year-end musings (meaningless perhaps).
Wishing everybody a Happy New Year.
:-)
Jyanendra
(Courtesy Avatar)
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Usenet is slowly dying and has been for years. Nothing to do with MS
in particular. Blame it on the web.

Microsoft has always preferred things thay can control to things they
can't. They can control their own forums; they can't control Usenet
groups.

Pick one or the other or both of those reasons.

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