[Vision2020] "Usenet" :V2020 Success

[Tbertruss at aol.com]

All:

"Usenet" should be capitalized in the post below sent earlier.

Ted

LRosgen et. al.

I was not in any way advocating abandoning V2020, but only pointing out that 
if First Step decided it best to stop sponsoring V2020, there are other 
alternatives to continue a community list serve that are "free."  I have belonged to 
many "free" list serves, so V2020, for moi, is just an extension of this 
Internet world of online communication.  

I love usenet (once under the DejaNews banner but now taken over by Google) 
for the discussion groups that are ongoing for an endless number of subjects.  
Anyone can create their own discussion group for a new subject.  And what is 
interesting is that there is a huge amount of info available on usenet that is 
not accessed via a Google Internet search.  You must do a "groups" search, 
separate from Google's Internet search.  How this works I am not sure, but usenet 
is a separate part of the Internet, in some sense.  Usenet goes way back to 
the origins of the Internet, I think.

I may become a First Step customer if they can provide high speed wireless 
Internet beamed to my location in rural Latah County.  Apparently they are 
working on this.

Ted Moffett 

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