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From: Arne Vajhøj on 12 May 2010 22:19 On 06-05-2010 21:34, Peter Duniho wrote: > Arne Vajh�j wrote: >> [...] >> But because many ISP has been closing down their news services, then >> some dedicated news services are showing up. [...] > > My observation from the handful of ISPs I deal with is that they simply > contract out to Giganews or Supernews if they want to provide their > users with NNTP access. > > There's very little real competition in that space, as far as I can > tell. If Giganews and Supernews decide to keep the newsgroups, then that > will probably be enough to keep them healthy (well, as healthy as they > can be with fewer and fewer people choosing NNTP as their protocol of > choice). > > If those two don't decide to keep the newsgroups, I don't think the > way-smaller ones will be enough to keep them going. GigaNews and SuperNews are not so relevant. They make money from providing the binary groups to lots of people. They won't care about .NET groups. I am talking about the free servers, that only carries text groups and where developers is their primary customer group (as far as such a term makes sense for a free service). I think they will be interested in carrying the .NET groups. Arne
From: Dan Holmes on 13 May 2010 08:27
On 5/12/2010 10:19 PM, Arne Vajh�j wrote: > On 06-05-2010 21:34, Peter Duniho wrote: >> Arne Vajh�j wrote: >>> [...] >>> But because many ISP has been closing down their news services, then >>> some dedicated news services are showing up. [...] >> >> My observation from the handful of ISPs I deal with is that they simply >> contract out to Giganews or Supernews if they want to provide their >> users with NNTP access. >> >> There's very little real competition in that space, as far as I can >> tell. If Giganews and Supernews decide to keep the newsgroups, then that >> will probably be enough to keep them healthy (well, as healthy as they >> can be with fewer and fewer people choosing NNTP as their protocol of >> choice). >> >> If those two don't decide to keep the newsgroups, I don't think the >> way-smaller ones will be enough to keep them going. > > GigaNews and SuperNews are not so relevant. They make money > from providing the binary groups to lots of people. They won't > care about .NET groups. > > I am talking about the free servers, that only carries > text groups and where developers is their primary > customer group (as far as such a term makes sense > for a free service). > > I think they will be interested in carrying the .NET > groups. > > Arne Looks like eternal-september does. http://www.eternal-september.org/groups.php?hierarchy=microsoft |