Hi, Han.
Did you see the thread just a couple of entries before yours? Check out
"TWC your ISP?", started by Pete the Pilot on 6/11/08.
So we now have Time Warner and Verizon pulling the plug on
alt.comp.software.financial.quicken - and many other excellent newsgroups.
Who's next?
RC
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"Han" <nobody@nospam.not> wrote in message
news:Xns9ABC43F352FD0ikkezelf@130.81.64.196...
> Verizon in its inestimably excellent way has shot itself in the foot
> again.
> IMNSHO one of the benefits was the relatively slow but otherwise excellent
> newsgroup service. Now they have decided to drop all alt.* newsgroups and
> limit themnselves to only the big 8 plus 0.verizon.*
>
> comp.*
> humanities.*
> misc.*
> news.*
> rec.*
> sci.*
> soc.*
> talk.*
>
> This is going to impact me on several newsgroups, and I'll have to find a
> way around it, especially for alt.binaries.woodworking
> --
> Best regards
> Han