dsi1 wrote:
>
> You techno-dinosaurs are
> only around as long as the servers remain active. This seems like a slim
> thread to hang your world on.

It's the dinosaursa that are keeping Usenet going these days. More and
more hobbiests run NNTP servers and give away access. In a sense it's
heading towards how it was in the 1980s with small sites supplying the
access.