On 6/18/2012 11:01 AM, Doug Freyburger wrote:
> 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.

I think that's fine. I don't see anything wrong with the users stepping
up to the plate to preserve their own thing. I used to post on old
bulletin board systems and I thought that was great time. Too bad the
old bulletin boards got overshadowed by Usenet. OTOH, there are a lot of
great web-based forums out there.