ISPs know that only a tiny fraction of their customers use, or even know
about, usenet, yet it ties up a lot of their time and equipment. They
can improve their earnings by dropping usenet, as only a few customers
will leave when they do that. Some ISPs just eliminate the equipment
for usenet, and buy feed from one of the usenet services, at a discount.
Mine does that and we never knew it when they made the switch, but now
when I ask them to add a newsgroup, they say they can't, as it is out of
their control.

Google can be used, or if you want the best service, you can sign up
with one of the usenet providers; I think most cost about $10 a month.

madgardener wrote:
Well apparently there are quite a few missing friends from our cyber
backyard. Grdngal has lost her newsgroups capability, and now I've
found that the other Marilyn up in Ohio has lost HER newsgroups thanks
to AOL dropping them. This is horrible!! It's like walking down the
street to visit a friend's garden and discovering in the night that the
whole yard has been whisked away! I guess I'll have to personally
e-mail some of my garden friends to see if they're having newsgroup
withdrawal. I wonder why AOL would do this? (and the server that Pam,
aka grdngal, has)
madgardener up on the snowy ridge, where we FINALLY got snow (it's all
gone Eastwards to North Carolina every time!) back in Faerie Holler,
overlooking a beautiful wintery English Mountain in Eastern Tennessee,
zone 7?, Sunset zone 36

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