> What Bill ALSO fails to mention is the downturn in Usenet messages.
 > Volume there has dropped by as much as 50% in less than 2 years 
 > (more
 > of a decline than Fido echomail), mainly due to an explosion in 
 > websites
 > and on-line games. And it probably won't change back.
 
Being fairly new to the net I found myself aghast and awash in an endless
tide of Junk Email, get rich quick schemes, Sex solicitations. Endless
waiting to access busy URLS (Even some not busy). I offer the Web/FTP/EMAIL/
TELNET to my callers for free. Most simply use the web-browser access,
I have only a few that can stomach email and the newsgroups much more then
a few weeks. Many Have commented on the quality of postings of the Fido type
Networks as opposed to the "netgroups'. I agree with their assement, by and
large a self-policing moderater directed fido echo is MUCH more enjoyable
then a non-controllable Citizens Band Computer Port....
 
 - Just my two cents...
 - Terry Bendell
 - bigsky@georgian.net
 - NEC 1:252/502
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