On Tue, 2 May 2006, Matthew Poole wrote:
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Andrew McMillan wrote:
So, just for interest's sake, what's up with Xtra and usenet?
On Friday, in postings to all groups on their NNTP server, Xtra announced that they're discontinuing the service from tomorrow. There was no other notification given.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10379801
Have to admitt that personally i've not used Usenet in some time, and thus this was the first i'd heard about it (i.e. thanks to whoever posted this in the first place...) My personal POV is that this is a shocking way to deal with the situation, as respects customer service... but then that is just my opinion. I am however interested in yours: http://www.blakjak.net/node/497 Anyone who'd care to vote in the two polls related to this issue found at the above link, a little bit of impromptu statistics gathering. It might also save a flurry of 'me too's.'. I am interested to see whether there is an opinion that regardless of the 'how' this was done by Xtra, that this may infact have been a 'smart' idea (from a business POV). One assumes you take into account the business overheads of running a usenet server in the first place, and that there is a noticable benefit to the company by cancelling the service... Mark.