"Peter Dohm" wrote

Too true, the bulletin board format just doesn't work for me.

It really seems to me that the nail in the coffin, at least temporarily,
was the decision of the ATT based ISPs to dump usenet. There's just no
way to tell when or even if it will recover.

Could be, but that is only ignorance of the other possibilities available to
still be online with Usenet.

Take the way I read them. I use nntp.aioe.org. It has been 100% reliable,
and free, but the only thing they do not have is binaries. I can live
without.
--
Jim in NC