this is the death knell (Score 1)

after alt.* is gone, how much usenet traffic will verizon customers generate? How many of them will care when they drop it entirely? usenet is dead! long live usenet! from wikipedia: Usenet was the initial Internet community and the place for many of the most important public developments in the commercial Internet. It was the place where Tim Berners-Lee announced the launch of the World Wide Web, where Linus Torvalds announced the Linux project, and where Marc Andreesen announced the creation of the Mosaic browser and the introduction of the image tag, which revolutionized the World Wide Web by turning it into a graphical medium.