Posted by What? on February 26, 2002 at 05:50:22:
In Reply to: Re: My goodness you'd think it was the end of the world...GET OVER IT! posted by Howard Casto on February 25, 2002 at 14:53:18:
: Because newsgroups have the same bandwidth issues that regular html sites do. They also have the same legal concerns. If they become too popular then the majority of them will be shut down as well.
Howard...
Newsgroups have the same bandwidth and legal concerns? Usenet has been around longer than the WWW and check out the binary newsgroups. On a daily basis there are CURRENT movies available for download as well as other questionable material.
There is not really a way to shut them down.