[zcaveman]

Originally Posted by Hawkwind

Road Runner, Comcast, AT&T and a lot of others dumped the USENET due to the bandwidth that was being used to download movies, tv programs and software. You can still get USENET but you have to subscribe to a service to get it. Cost runs from about $10.00 and up depending on how much you download.

Thanks. I never knew why they dumped USENET. I figured it was because of some of the erotic content. But with the number of free forums and Google sites with answers, I find I do not need USENET anymore.