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

[Luke -Jr]

On Sunday 29 June 2008, 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.

What? Who's talking about some UUCP/dialup thing that I've never even heard 
of? Isn't Time Warner dropping Usenet (general) access via NNTP over the 
Internet (or at least their intranet)?