From Newsgroup: comp.misc
On Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:31:07 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
ISP's dropped Usenet because it wasn't worth it for them. If I
recall correctly, my ISP, when I queried it said that there were few
users, but the data usage was high (binaries).
I suspect my ISP only dropped Usenet when they (re)discovered they
were still running a feed several months, or maybe even years, after
forgetting they had it. Stumble across an old machine in a closet
somewhere, wonder what it’s doing (“Usenet? What’s that?” quoth some PHB somewhere, no doubt), it’s obsolete, so turn it off.
However, they also dropped email, which kind of sucked.
My ISP (and no doubt all the others) dropped every single value-add
service they were previously offering: web hosting and FTP server,
domain name registration, email, the works. After struggling
desperately for several years to be more than just another low-margin
commodity bit-pipe, that’s exactly what they all are now.
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