I run an online backup service at work, and we talk about our storage requirements in Petabytes not Terabytes now, and that’s a lot of storage.  I can’t imagine how much storage Giganews must have in order to deliver 240 days retention which they’ve just announced.  The number of files shared via Usenet must be [...]

Usenet is dead. It withered in the face of competition from web forums, mailing lists and blog comments, and to an extent, BitTorrent. It didn’t help that by the end most of usenet had degenerated into a useless free-for-all where socially inept malcontents trolled and flamed, with little else going on by the end. With [...]