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From the admin standpoint, Usenet was pretty good until it started being (mis)used as a binary transfer system. Once it started using a DS-3 worth of bandwidth
by linsomniac 8y ago
From the admin standpoint, Usenet was pretty good until it started being (mis)used as a binary transfer system. Once it started using a DS-3 worth of bandwidth to carry the full feed, it started being a battle between the users and the admins.
- secabeen 8y agoThat was part of it, but there were solutions to those problems that were implementable by smaller providers. (We had a nice split host system, where we had all headers and bodies of text groups locally, and just called out to one of the big providers for bodies from the binary groups.) Unfortunately, once the web came along, usenet became a second-class service, and slowly degraded
- voltagex_ 8y agoMy ISP only killed Usenet a few months ago (reselling Astraweb). I don't think it's degraded - just the purpose has changed. It's just another method of getting high bitrate video and malware from point A to point B, now.