The end of top-posting and HTML posts, hooray!

[T_Bone]

http://www.betanews.com/article/AOL_Pulls_Plug_on_Newsgroup_Service/1106664611

[cecilia]

Last summer, the ISP settled a long-running lawsuit brought by author Harlan Ellison. The science fiction writer had complained that AOL was partly to blame when one of its users posted digital copies of his published work in Usenet newsgroups. AOL argued that, under the DMCA, its liability for the actions of members was limited.

Yeah! Harlan!

[Dan]

Now there is only those few Outlook-users left. :-)

What is yEnc?

:destroy:  :destroy:  :destroy:  

[whabang]

alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die

:lol:

[MiAmigo]

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.