T_Bone wrote:
http://www.betanews.com/article/AOL_Pulls_Plug_on_Newsgroup_Service/1106664611
"But the Usenet will nonetheless become a smaller, less interesting place once AOL turns off its newsgroup servers"
With AOL users gone, that's a hoot. I doubt if their 'hand-holding' brand of service contributed anything to the Usenet groups, other than a bunch of people who didn't even know where the hell they were. Good riddance, I say.