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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: How To Improve This Group
Date: 11 Apr 2025 17:40:08 GMT
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On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:22:54 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:


> In the case of NNTP, American Congress seems to have been succesful in
> killing most of it. If I remember correctly, some poorly informed
> politician had no idea what was going on on Usenet or even how to use
> it, but he felt that he could complain about its contents anyway. As a
> result, ISPs stopped providing a news server.

The ISP is used dropped their news server year ago. It required a huge 
amount of storage and processing power. Even before it was phased out a 
server in Berlin was more responsive than one 8 miles away.