ISPs, Newsgroups, etc. ...OH MY!!!

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Sunday 29 June 2008 11:25:58 am Adrian Griffis wrote:
> Sorry to get pedantic, folks, but we're talking about Usenet NEWS,
> here, not Usenet, in general.  Usenet News was simply one of the
> services available through that UUCP/dialup connected network of
> systems called Usenet.  Usenet, itself, is even closer to being dead
> than Usenet News, now that this news system has switched mainly to
> being carried by NNTP over the Internet.

Usenet still runs a majority of backbone connections in the U.S. - but I know 
of no dial-up UUCP connections that are still in use.