Re: News on AIOE's outage

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> On Wed, 8 Mar 2023 16:24:51 -0500
> "OldbieOne" <[email protected]> wrote:
> ><[email protected]> wrote in message
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> >> On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 14:19:46 -0500
> >> Tony <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >Sn!pe wrote:
> >> >> Don Spam's Reckless Son <[email protected]>
wrote:
> ><snip>
> >>>
> >> >AIOE is supposed to take top priority due to all the school children
who
> >> >now can't learn anything on usenet. Eternal September the guy who runs
> >>
> >> How many kids ever used usenet even in the 90s, never mind now?
> >
> >I was about 8 when I first accessed USENET....
> >
> >Something tells me that the average age on USENET now has to be 55+
except
> >for maybe one or two younger ped0s who should be arrested and hung by
their
> >b@lls until dead.
>
> I'm < 55. First used usenet when I was at uni in the 90s.

If you were 18 in the 90's you're not too far behind ;)

My first experience with USENET was a limited feed via the BBS my father was
a user of
in the late 80's, but I was pretty much using USENET regularly by way of my
ISP's provided
NNTP service and through college access from the early 90's until it's
"death" in the post-9/11
culling.

I don't think it'll ever be the same as it was, but I'm glad that it's still
here in some form or other.