[IP] AOL to drop Usenet

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 22:19:41 -0500
To: <dave@farber.net>
Subject: AOL to drop Usenet

AOL has announced that it's going to drop Usenet.  The AP wire
story on the subject claimed that fewer than 1000 of its 23 million
subscribers even used the service.

It's no surprise, though they picked an ironic time for the move -- this
month is the 25th anniversary of when we announced Usenet at the January
Usenix conference.  And of course, AOL is by no means the entire
Internet.

http://www.betanews.com/article/AOL_Pulls_Plug_on_Newsgroup_Service/11066646
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