I'm not too sure about POP and NNTP, but here's a rule I follow
   about the net: Believe nobody that says, "The sky is falling."
   *UUCP isn't about to die. *The funny thing about people that say
   something is going to be no more, are always EVENTUALLY right,
   since everything comes to a close or a drastic changeover. But
   UUCP? *Nah. *It's too easy and cheap of a medium to vanish
   anytime soon. *That's like the people who say that MS=DOS is
   dead or that nobody uses 8088's or 286's anymore. It's just very
   wrong opinions, posted as if they were facts :)     via
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