Re: Usenet

On 1/20/25 9:13 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

In article <vmm224$3a5rm$1@dont-email.me>, tjoen  <tjoen@dds.nl> wrote:

On 1/20/25 4:59 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
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And THEN of course there was this huge backlash started by Cyrus Vance, Jr.
who saw attacking it as a political tool.  That pretty much put it to bed.

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Unknown this side of the ocean.
Also not mentioned on his Wikipedia article

 I'm surprised it wasn't known there because it was such a huge deal on
Usenet at the time.... so many people lost Usenet access when almost all
of the major American ISPs dropped their Usenet service at once.

Wikipedia Usenet article doesn't mention it either.
Only mentions decline. linux advocacy group looks lively