Don't quite understand what you are getting at as I only pay $5 month or on
quota from APN (Forteinc.com)
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 06:17:00 -0400, Paul Murphy <CornedBeef@Cabbage.com>
wrote:
>Imporrtant movements rise and fall in cycles. I first found the Usenet
>in the late 1980s, on an Amiga 500. At it's height, I was a member of
>about 120 groups. Then 2 things happened. The WWW came along, and bled
>off users. Young people weren't finding out about the Usenet. Secondly,
>Groups began to be attacked by spammers. In a colossal blunder of
>failure to understand their own self-interest, Giganews and other
>providers refused to do anyathing about it. Group after group got
>choked by spam to the extent that it was hard to find real posts. Users
>disappeared, and groups closed down. In a few cases, groups that once
>had many contributors were sustained by a superstar:Captain Salvo in
>music; Rockhound 57 in text xbooks, cronic in audiobooks. Today, only
>Cronic remains, snd he's not worth $30 a month. So long, Usenet. I knew
>ye well.
>
>Paul
Steve
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