[time-nuts] OT: Verilog/VHDL discussion list created...

[Chuck Harris]

John Miles wrote:
>> At 12:29 PM 4/14/2009 , John Miles wrote:
>>> ... for those who would like to participate in HDL discussions
>> that aren't
>>> on-topic for existing lists:
>>>
>>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HDLTalk
>>>
>>> Any VHDL or Verilog HDL-related topics are welcome.
>> How will this compare to comp.lang.verilog, comp.lang.vhdl, and
>> comp.arch.fpga?
> 
> Not everybody can stomach Google's perversion of Usenet (which admittedly
> was no small engineering feat in itself).

Google didn't do anything to usenet.  They did provide a web based
interface into usenet, and bought the dejanews archive of all
non-binary groups.

What did happen to usenet, is most ISP's stopped hosting newsgroups,
and providing usenet service to their subscribers.  They did this
partly because of the success of yahoo groups, and google groups,
and partly because of the risk of hosting any child pornography
that might be passed along on usenet.

-Chuck Harris