Posted by Blinky the Shark on 03/13/06 18:20

Harvey Van Sickle wrote:

> On 13 Mar 2006, Tin Man Alley wrote
>
> -snip-
>
>> AOL also dropped Usenet a year ago Feb. They also dropped it from their
>> Compuserve brand as well at the same time. They never offered it from
>> their Netscape brand. As such AOL'ers have had to locate free servers.
>>
>> Course, when the flood went to individual.net they wised up and started
>> charging. That drove them to Google, but Google doesn't archive or
>> carry most binary groups where you'd find videos and music.
>
> Yabbut, individual.net never carried binaries, and the charge was nominal.
>
> I doubt if there was a huge swing that went AOL>individual.net>Google --
> more likely a direct move from AOL to Google.

Well, *I* certainly didn't tell any AOLers about NIN. ;) And certainly
not about Google, either. I just watched and enjoyed the culling. :)


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