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Tim Bradshaw  
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 More options Jan 9 2012, 5:00 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: Tim Bradshaw <t...@tfeb.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 10:00:38 +0000
Local: Mon, Jan 9 2012 5:00 am
Subject: Re: Usenet decline.
On 2012-01-07 18:53:10 +0000, Giorgos Keramidas said:

> Maybe people move to places behind overly restrictive firewalls.  Even
> so, it's often easy to find the local administrator and ask for an
> exception.  I've done it a few times already.

This is probably part of it.  I think the era when you could expect to
be able to use your employer-provided machine & employer-provided
network for things like usenet is over, but people are probably still
expecting it to work.

 
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