Don Roberts <droberts@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > James B. Davis wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 07:15:33 -0500, Don Roberts <droberts@xxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote/replied to: > > > >> And yet many ISPs have dropped newsgroups altogether. Mine did > >> that 2 years ago. > >>Don > > Well you can pay for Newsgroups from any number of services. Quite > > reasonable for what you get. > > > Yep, I did that for a while after my ISP dropped them. I'm not quite > sure why I stopped. You all are making it sound indispensable. At > least for file sharing. Newsgroups are certainly where I spend the vast majority of my online time. But then, I've been doing that since before there *was* a web. Binary newsgroups I essentially never touch, though, except occasionally alt.binaries.photos.aviation. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
