AOL Kills Usenet Access

Numair writes "BetaNews is reporting that AOL is about to terminate Usenet access for its users. Now, before everyone starts rejoicing ... where is the Usenet community going to find another large media company to protect it from frivolous copyright lawsuits?"

Wow.

[kalidasa]

It looks like September did end, after all.

Sorry folks, couldn't help it.

no more me too posts

[shamage]

What no more me to posts that we have all come to love :-)

Better late than never

[Anonymous Coward]

The september that never ended is... ending?!

AOL killed it in the first place

[AutumnLeaf]

I was there when AOL enabled usenet access. The flood of users with no netiquette or, as it seemed to me at the time, common sense, drove me out of almost every newsgroup I followed.

And now they are leaving.

Irony.

a great disturbance

[Fr05t]

"I felt a great disturbance in the Usenet, as if millions of alt.binary.xxxporn images suddenly
cried out in terror and silenced at once"

Re:Wow.

[Anonymous Coward]

Use a real browser. I've found IE to be a rock solid, secure platform.

Other might have differing opinions

RE: I'm happy about it

[doublem]

I'm happy to see the AOL Morons leave Usenet once and for all. I've had my news reader delete all posts involving @aol.com addresses for years.

Me Too!

Re:Whatever gets AOL off the net is fine with me.

[DickBreath]

Want an AOL CD? Go to Burger King! They make half-decent....

For a second there, I thought you were about to suggest that an AOL CD was an ingredient in a sandwich.

Re:AOL killed it in the first place

[Tackhead]

ME TOO!

> I was there when AOL enabled usenet access.
> The
> flood of users with no netiquette or, as it seemed
> to me at
> the time, common sense, drove me out of
>almost
> every newsgroup I followed.

Re:Wow.

[HiredMan]

Me too!!!!!!!!

=tkk

Re:Whatever gets AOL off the net is fine with me.

[dsginter]

But I'll take anything that reduces AOL's Internet presence as a good thing for the Internet.

Me too.

A++ post! Would mod up again.

Re:Whatever gets AOL off the net is fine with me.

[EnronHaliburton2004]

Want an AOL CD? Go to Burger King! They make half-decent frisbees...

Ah, but who makes better frisbees? AOL or Burger King?

Re:Wow.

[Anonymous Coward]

If you don't understand the reference, it's referring to you !

(In Soviet Russia...)

Dateline 1995

[FusionDragon2099]

"In headlines today, the dreaded killfile virus spread across the country adding 'aol.com' to people's Usenet kill files everywhere. The programmer of the virus still remains anonymous, but has been nominated several times for a Nobel peace prize."

Alicia Silverstone

[Profane MuthaFucka]

(editor note - let's do this right. This is the authentic way that these 'mee too' threads were perpetuated. A favorite hottie of the world of 1994 was the underage star Alicia Silverstone.)

>>If you want your pictures of Alicia
>>Silverstone naked,
>>just post "me too" on this thread and
>>I will e-mail them to you.

>Me too!!!!!!!!

me too.

Re:AOL killed it in the first place

[Filmwatcher888]

LOL!!1!

>ME TOO!

>> I was there when AOL enabled usenet access. The
>> flood of users with no netiquette or, as it eemed
>> to me at the time, common sense, drove me out of
>> almost every newsgroup I followed.

Re:Whatever gets AOL off the net is fine with me.

[iabervon]

Now, if we could only get them to discontinue email by blocking SMTP traffic to and from the internet...

Me too

[EachLennyAPenny]

For those who don't get it:

<AOL>For me, too</AOL>

At the sound of the tone

[Morphix84]

The current Eastern Standard Datetime will be: 12:34 PM, October 1, 1993 BEEP

Re:Comcast just changed its Usenet policies as wel

[Anonymous Coward]

Or option three: You can quit beating off so much. Turn off your PC and go outside and play.

Re: Me too

[Stavr0]

*plonk*

Re:AOL killed it in the first place

[siskbc]

BOB DO YOU READ THIS GROUP. SEND ME EMAIL. [e-mail] THANKS.

blah blah lameness filter blah blah

Re:Alicia Silverstone

[HiredMan]

Q: How many AOLers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: One.... and
>>>>>>>>me too!!!
>>>>>>>me to!!!111!!
>>>>>>me too
>>>>>me t00!
>>>>me too!!!!!!
>>>me too!!!!!
>>mt!
>me to!
me too!!!!

The best description I ever heard of unleashing AOLers on the web was something like: "On a highway of most hobbyists and homebuilt cars AOL is the giant bus belching smoke and fumes as the crazed passengers that curse and throw garbage at others on the road."

=tkk

Stop sterotyping AOL users.

[jthayden]

Oh come on, I did a search for 'me too' on google groups and it only found 4,270,000 results. Stop your whining.

Re:Stop sterotyping AOL users.

[DirkDaring]

Me too

Re:Wow.

[rs79]

> Never had that problem with MSIE!

You spelled it wrong. It's "MS AAAIIIEEEEEEEE!"