[geeks] RANT (ftp)

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:09:00PM -0400, kevin marshall wrote:
> I suppose i could be wrong, but i would think that the number of
> AOL users who are even aware of the existence of Usenet would
> have to number very low. That might not have been the case 15
> years ago, but now...

It was bad enough to cause "The September That Never Ended":
http://catb.org/jargon/html/S/September-that-never-ended.html

Fortunately, it ended in January 2005:
http://www.betanews.com/article/AOL_Pulls_Plug_on_Newsgroup_Service/1106664611

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas