"rickman" wrote in message
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On 12/4/2015 4:29 PM, Ralph Mowery wrote:
"jta" wrote in message
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Usenet has been in decline since the Internet came upon the scene, many
years ago. It's not being "pushed aside by Yahoo groups", which are
much worse than Usenet has become; Yahoo is clunky and veerrryyyy SLOW!

Yahoo was fine up to about 2 years ago and then they did something and I
only get the mail from the user groups. Never try to go to the group
sites
unless there is a file I want to down load.

A big issue I have with Yahoo is that they now require you to verify a new
account with a mobile cell number. That's ridiculous.

Especially for we old fogies who, to all intents and purposes, do not
have a mobile phone. I do have one, but only switch it on for
emergency-style outgoing calls. 15 years ago I got a £50
pay-as-you-go card upon which I still have baout £7 left.

(And that is despite that in my last 10 years of gainful employment
I was designing test eqpt for mobile phone development!)