"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
In the meantime, MS's closure of their servers may well precipitate
a domino effect on the leeches
It's funny that you call the rest of usenet "leeches".
MS has never declared its servers as being part of Usenet - it's simply
allowed Usenet to leech posts ( it reduces bandwidth, after all), and feed
responses to its own groups.
To be part of Usenet, it would have had to acknowledged the UseNet
protocols - which it never has done, AFAIK. It would also have needed to
host other groups, which it certainly never has done.
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Noel Paton
CrashFixPC
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