On 30/12/2013 2:48 PM, Paul wrote:
On 12/30/2013 2:38 PM, Silver Slimer wrote:
On 30/12/2013 1:30 PM, Nil wrote:

There will be no competition. Nobody is developing new nntp readers,
especially for Windows. The venue is fading away.

Please do not indulge the troll's habit of crossposting messages to
unrelated newsgroups.

Admittedly, Usenet in general is dying off. It's still an excellent way
to download pirated material in relative secrecy (if your Usenet
provider supports SSL) and at top speed but for discussions, it's dying
and the ISPs are trying to guarantee that. My Internet provider does not
include post-enabled Usenet access just to give you an idea and it's the
largest ISP in the whole country.


USENET servers are a "cost center" for the ISP. So they don't really
want to offer any service, that costs money to police. A similar
thing happened at work - we had a server with posting capability,
within the company, but it cost "one IT guy" to run it. So it
was shut down.

Well, I believe that's what happened here. Sure Usenet isn't in high
demand by customers because customers don't even know it exists. Any
looking for a discussion will go to specialty web sites offering forums
on a specific topic like BigSoccer for soccer-related chat or the Ubuntu
forums for discussion of anything related to that operating system.
However, Usenet is the quickest way of discussing with people and it is
a shame that it's dying off the way it is.

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Silver Slimer
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