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Charliec

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Tax season is over :-)

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David H. Lipman

It's not just this newsgroup. All of the 20 or so newsgroups I subscribe to are showing similar decrease in traffic for the past week.

George snipped-for-privacy@nospamcomcast.net

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Just me

Fewer and fewer ISP's are supporting Usenet, which is a pity.

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Nobody

Nobody wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

I'll say it again. I spent $10 on astraweb on June 26, 2008 for 25GB of downloads. I still have more than 24GB available.

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Spread the news!!

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Han

Hi, Nobody.

Sad, but true. :>(

Even the FIRST Usenet site is closing today, May 20, 2010. See these two related stories:

Help Save a Piece of Usenet History at Duke University

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A Piece of Internet History
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To quote Duke University: The Usenet service news.duke.edu will be decommissioned tomorrow. Widely considered the first home for newsgroups, Usenet services, in Duke's words, ".have been made unnecessary by the growing use of blogs, social networking sites and RSS feed."

The dramatic drop in traffic on the Microsoft public news servers (msnews.microsoft.com) is no doubt because of Microsoft's announcement that most of those newsgroups will be closed by the end of this Summer. MS wants everybody to use their forums for support. Many of us MVPs have vigorously protested this move, but to no avail.

My ISP (Grande Communications, based here in San Marcos, TX) continues to carry over 100,000 NGs and has not announced plans to drop them...yet.

RC

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R. C. White

Also perhaps a reflection of the fact that Q is a mature product; most of the bugs and problems and how-tos that early adopters needed assistance on are done because of lack of new folks using the product and/or lack of new function that requires explanation (for the most part).

We had quite an influx of posts about Microshaft Money conversion when that was made public, but that's settled down too.

And as someone else posted, tax season is over, so no more Turbotax discussions for the most part until November or December. (Assuming we don't go to a flat tax, usage tax, or VAT tax for the next tax season which makes a tax program unnecessary. Nah - so simple, so fair, would never fly. Too many people's oxes and special interests would get gored.)

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Andrew

It should be obvious that nobody has any problems with Quicken, right?

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XS11E

| It should be obvious that nobody has any problems with Quicken, right? |

Thanx to the economy I don't have any money left in my MMA to use it :-)

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David H. Lipman

I had plenty of money but.... I got hungry so I spent my life savings on a Big Mac and a Coke.

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XS11E

| I had plenty of money but.... I got hungry so I spent my life savings | on a Big Mac and a Coke.

LOL :-)

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David H. Lipman

A poor man who had to spend his last coin.

--from the Ramayana

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Keith Snyder

Yawn.

No, there will always be queries about software.

The answer to this query is simply that "Usenet" use/access is dying.

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Nobody

| Yawn.

| No, there will always be queries about software.

| The answer to this query is simply that "Usenet" use/access is dying.

More like being killed off by; Google, trolls, spam and Andrew Cuomo.

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David H. Lipman

Hi, Andrew.

You "quoted" me - but you deleted ALL of my comments and inserted your own, so it appears that YOUR comments are MINE! :>(

Please be careful not to put your words into my mouth.

RC

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R. C. White

Hi, Nobody (and David).

Just a minor clarification for your Reply: That quote did not come from me (although I don't disagree with it), but from Andrew, who deleted all the body of my text when he "quoted" my message.

RC

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R. C. White

Sorry RC - that certainly wasn't my intent. I left the ONE bracket so that those savvy would have (I had hoped, obviously incorrectly) that nothing else was from you. My apologies. What can I say?

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Andrew

Weeeell, as much as I might like to disparage Google, it is sort of keeping the system "alive" even if access isn't by NNTP.

If it weren't for Google's routing through the WWW, news groups that are withering anyway, would've been stone dead.

(Totally off topic, but as ISP's in the likes of Aussie and NZ stopped supporting Usenet access, groups with interests aimed specifically at those two countries simply folded.

Non-techies had no idea where to go, as their ISP's didn't point them to servers such as Giganews and others.)

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Nobody

| Weeeell, as much as I might like to disparage Google, it is sort of | keeping the system "alive" even if access isn't by NNTP.

| If it weren't for Google's routing through the WWW, news groups that | are withering anyway, would've been stone dead.

| (Totally off topic, but as ISP's in the likes of Aussie and NZ stopped | supporting Usenet access, groups with interests aimed specifically at | those two countries simply folded.

| Non-techies had no idea where to go, as their ISP's didn't point them | to servers such as Giganews and others.)

Google is destroying Usenet by their allowing spam and profiting from it.

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David H. Lipman

Hi, Andrew.

"No harm, no foul", as they say.

I just didn't want other readers to mistake the source of the comments.

RC

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R. C. White

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