My sense has always been that it's a LOT of data to be moving around. I have Comcast, and they used to provide Usenet access with their internet access. But you

My sense has always been that it's a LOT of data to be moving around. I have Comcast, and they used to provide Usenet access with their internet access. But your average internet user doesn't really have an interest in Usenet. I think it's a very niche thing, even for "advanced internet users", whatever that may mean. And these days it seems to me (I may be totally off base here, though) that it's used primarily for pirating media. So it's likely just not worth the cost for ISPs to continue to provide the storage space and bandwidth to maintain support for this.