On 8/6/2014 8:07 PM, sf wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 10:07:38 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, August 5, 2014 5:01:55 AM UTC-10, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
>>> On 7/30/2014 11:46 AM, sf wrote:
>>>
>>> With no responsible party, there's no interest in
>>>
>>> doing anything to change the Usenet experience. And *that*, boys and
>>>
>>> girls, is the real reason most ISPs dumped Usenet support. Unlike the
>>>
>>> WWW, Usenet makes no money for anyone. Better to push people onto the
>>>
>>> Web, where they can pay for their experiences via advertising and data
>>>
>>> scraping.
>>
>> This certainly sounds reasonable and true. Hopefully, the boys and girls can live with that reality.
>
> People are going to web forums because they are moderated and the crap
> that goes on here is deleted there.
>

It's like a war zone down here. My guess is that when this is all gone,
we'll look back fondly on Usenet. Strange but true - I think.