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Warp wrote:
> scott <sco### [at] scott com> wrote:
>> In the end I just gave up, the groups I frequented died out as people moved
>> to web-based forums
>
> Why do people do that?
Because for ISPs, newsgroups are a cost, whereas for forums, they're either
Not My Problem if it's on someone else's server, or a source of revenue if
it's ad-supported, or you paying for only exactly the forums you want otherwise.
Plus, of course, you don't get users screaming at you that you dropped
mega-post 19 of 47 of the latest blu-ray DVD rip.
> This trend of everything going to WWW just sucks. Most internet users
> don't actually know that there's something *else* than WWW out there.
I agree.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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