Another Nail In Usenet's Coffin?

Another Nail In Usenet's Coffin? 482

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @07:32PM from the don't-usenet dept.

Karamchand writes "Today news.individual.net in an email to its more than 250.000 registered users announced that they won't be able to continue offering free Usenet access. While it provided text-only groups many people relied on individual.net's service to take part in one of the Internet's older services. In a time were a working news server is not a selling point for ISPs and most internet users never heard about this service, will this be another nail in the coffin of Usenet?"

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What? (Score:5, Funny)

by jim_v2000 ( 818799 ) writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @07:33PM (#11683569)

What's this Usenet thing again?

Let's hope it goes away... (Score:5, Funny)

by MillionthMonkey ( 240664 ) writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @07:34PM (#11683579)

...and takes with it those stupid posts to alt.drugs I wrote in college...

Who cares? (Score:1, Funny)

by geoffspear ( 692508 ) * writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @07:37PM (#11683620) Homepage

In other news, [insert random company here] will no longer be accepting email by uucp connection, and is dropping support for BITNET addressing.

Re:Let's hope it goes away... (Score:3, Funny)

by sterno ( 16320 ) writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @07:38PM (#11683630) Homepage

Nope. Google has them all. Your career in politics is toast.

It's a Joke! (Score:2, Funny)

by XanC ( 644172 ) writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @07:38PM (#11683635)

Note that the date of the change is April Fools' Day. Plus, nobody being serious could write "April 1th" as they did.

Re:Death of Usenet predicted! Film at 11. (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @07:39PM (#11683650)

You're old.

Nails in the coffin (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @07:39PM (#11683654)

..there are all these nails being hammered in Usenet's coffin. Too bad Usenet is at the bar having a beer.

Re:"nobody uses usenet anymore" (Score:3, Funny)

by winkydink ( 650484 ) * writes: <sv.dude@gmail.com> on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @07:40PM (#11683666) Homepage Journal

I'm sure he wasn't thinking about alt.sex.stories.* when he said that. :)

What IS Usenet? (Score:2, Funny)

by solafide ( 845228 ) writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @07:40PM (#11683674) Homepage

I've seen the term in Thunderbird but what is it? If I haven't seen it, it is very oldfashioned, so good riddance!? Seriously, if there is a better alternative, bye-bye Usenet! It just struck me - is Usenet sort of a mailing list(round robin), a forum, what? Billy

Re:What? (Score:5, Funny)

by nizo ( 81281 ) * writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @07:41PM (#11683686) Homepage Journal

It is like email only spammier. Viva el spam!

Re:What? (Score:3, Funny)

by rainman_bc ( 735332 ) writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @07:41PM (#11683690)

What's this Usenet thing again?

It's dead, Netcraft confirms it, don't worry about it ;)

Re:Why be so dramatic? (Score:5, Funny)

by js7a ( 579872 ) writes: <james AT bovik DOT org> on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @07:43PM (#11683703) Homepage Journal

Heh. More articles claiming a service linked to from the front page of Google.com is suffering, please! [tt]

that's not all... (Score:5, Funny)

by mz001b ( 122709 ) writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @07:43PM (#11683707)

they also stated that they will discontinue gopher access, since this new world wide web thing looks like it may take off.
seriously, usenet still is one of the best ways to exchange information with people on a specific subject. Some of the comp.lang ones are quite good.

Effective April 1st? (Score:2, Funny)

by jk666 ( 220386 ) writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @07:44PM (#11683720)

Perhaps they're just proactive regarding April Fools day.

Re:Why be so dramatic? (Score:5, Funny)

by cnettel ( 836611 ) writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @07:50PM (#11683789)

There are plenty of good groups on usenet with loyal posters - it's like trying to kill fortran - it'll only happen over dead bodies..

Yeah, but in case you haven't noticed, the Fortran coders aren't getting any younger... So, dead bodies, true - not happen, false. :-)

April what? (Score:5, Funny)

by OECD ( 639690 ) writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @07:51PM (#11683794) Journal

Effective from April 1th, 2005, all non-converted accounts will stop working.
And they want us to take this seriously?
Man, a day of awful joke stories on /. AND free usenet stops working? Worst April 1st ever...

Re:Signal to Noise ratio review (Score:4, Funny)

by StateOfTheUnion ( 762194 ) writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @07:53PM (#11683823) Homepage

I remember Usenet fondly. It was a great source of information and discussion, but the signal to noise ratio got way to high.
If the signal to noise ratio gets high, you get lots of (presumably good) signal and relatively little noise. I think that what was meant was that the signal to noise ratio got too low . . . unless spam postings and AOL newbie pollution from Usenet in the 90's is considered signal and original and thoughtful postings from individuals is considered noise.

Time for a p2p usenet? (Score:2, Funny)

by Mr Impresario ( 748458 ) writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @07:55PM (#11683838)

Why not create a nice p2p client for the usenet? Everyone hosts a bit of it, maybe even their favorite parts. It could run in the background a la freenet, except without the crypto-slowness.

Re:its been dead (Score:2, Funny)

by fsh ( 751959 ) writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @07:56PM (#11683860)

It's only been around since '97.

Oh, wait, I thought you were talking about slashdot.

Re:What? (Score:5, Funny)

by rlp ( 11898 ) writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @08:08PM (#11683968)

It's some sort of primitive RSS interface for a group blog. :-)

Re:Let's hope it goes away... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @08:13PM (#11684005)

Mom?

Re:Google Groups (Score:5, Funny)

by commodoresloat ( 172735 ) writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @08:24PM (#11684136)

You really think Usenet is dying? Anyone got the link to netcraft?
There's only one way to tell for sure if usenet is truly dying.
Count the number of posts to usenet that mention usenet.

Re:Why be so dramatic? (Score:3, Funny)

by Minstrel Boy ( 787690 ) writes: <kevin_stevens@hotmail.com> on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @08:45PM (#11684341)

I've got three in my trunk (they don't take much space if you're willing to stack them creatively.
Just PUSH them in until they POP, eh? ;)
KeS

Re:What? (Score:5, Funny)

by IronChef ( 164482 ) writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @08:50PM (#11684390)

we're all discussing this on alt.usenet.crying.bye.bye.bye.

Fidonet, here I come! (Score:3, Funny)

by nozzle! ( 748736 ) writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @09:29PM (#11684767)

You can't stop me. I'll move to an even slower, more decrepit form of communication.

The Ghost of Usenet Postings Past (Score:5, Funny)

by MillionthMonkey ( 240664 ) writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @10:30PM (#11685155)

Suddenly, just as Paul was about to clinch the job interview... [ibiblio.org]

Re:It's true! The Death of Usenet. (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday February 15, 2005 @10:43PM (#11685213)

I'm sure that Richard Gere is heartbroken over this.

Re:What? (Score:3, Funny)

by lewp ( 95638 ) writes: on Wednesday February 16, 2005 @02:19AM (#11686466) Journal

Hell, in the United States only old people use Usenet :).

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Another Nail In Usenet's Coffin?

What? (Score:5, Funny)

Let's hope it goes away... (Score:5, Funny)

Who cares? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Let's hope it goes away... (Score:3, Funny)

It's a Joke! (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Death of Usenet predicted! Film at 11. (Score:5, Funny)

Nails in the coffin (Score:1, Funny)

Re:"nobody uses usenet anymore" (Score:3, Funny)

What IS Usenet? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:What? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Why be so dramatic? (Score:5, Funny)

that's not all... (Score:5, Funny)

Effective April 1st? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Why be so dramatic? (Score:5, Funny)

April what? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Signal to Noise ratio review (Score:4, Funny)

Time for a p2p usenet? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:its been dead (Score:2, Funny)

Re:What? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Let's hope it goes away... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Google Groups (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Why be so dramatic? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:What? (Score:5, Funny)

Fidonet, here I come! (Score:3, Funny)

The Ghost of Usenet Postings Past (Score:5, Funny)

Re:It's true! The Death of Usenet. (Score:1, Funny)

Re:What? (Score:3, Funny)

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