Major ISPs dropping Usenet

GMAN

In article <4856b052$0$12974$>, lkboop <.com> wrote:
>nospam wrote:
>> Time-Warner is dropping all newsgroups. Verizon is keeping most of
>> the Big-8 but is dropping the entire alt.* hierarchy, which includes this
>> group.
>>
>> Keep this in mind for future posts, and you may wish to migrate any
>> existing discussions to a non-alt.* group.
>>
>>
>WELL HERE WE ARE ANOTHER STUPID RUMOR STARTED -- I CHECKED TIME WARNER
>IN SOCAL THEY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THEY HAD BEEN ASKED ABOUT THIS AND THAT
>THIS IS TOTALLY FALSE-THEY ARE GOING TO LIMIT AND BLOCK SITES THAT HAVE
>APPARENT **** BOTH ADULT AND CHILD -- THEY HAVE NO INTENSION OF
>BLOCKING OR REMOVING ANY NEWS GROUPS WITH INFORMATIONAL VALUE--YOU WOULD
>THINK PEOPLE HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO THAN START THIS NONSENSE
Adult **** is not illegal.

Fishface

nospam wrote:

> Sorry, that's Verizon. Time-Warner is dropping *all* of Usenet.

Got my notice from Verizon today. Gonna check my options, but
being stupid is definitely going to cost them money from me.

Ed Cregger

Use this newserver: nntp.aioe.org

It is free and works as well as the one Bellsouth provides.

Ed Cregger

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"nospam" <> wrote in message
news:. ..
> Time-Warner is dropping all newsgroups. Verizon is keeping most of
> the Big-8 but is dropping the entire alt.* hierarchy, which includes this
> group.
>
> Keep this in mind for future posts, and you may wish to migrate any
> existing discussions to a non-alt.* group.
>
>