Re: WTF....VERIZON Stopping Alt.* newsgroups

The Hip Lord Teddy of RedSoxia wrote:
Below is a message I just received from Verizon....WTF!!!!

This pisses the *** out of me.

I guess I switch to google to read this...any ideas people?

Teddy


Dear Verizon Online Customer,

As a Verizon Newsgroup service user, we wanted to let you know about
some important changes that we will soon be making to our Newsgroup
service.
On June 24, 2008, we will be modifying our Newsgroup offerings to
only offer groups in the Big-8 Newsgroup hierarchies, which are
listed below. The 0.verizon.* newsgroup hierarchy will also continue to be available. Users will not be able to post or download from any other newsgroups
using our Newsgroup service.

comp.*
humanities.*
misc.*
news.*
rec.*
sci.*
soc.*
talk.*

More details regarding the Big 8 newsgroup hierarchies is available
at: http://www.big-8.org/.

This change will not affect your Internet access service. If you
would like to subscribe to newsgroups other than those we offer, you
will need to subscribe to a separate commercial news service. Please
note that your use of any such service is still subject to our Terms
of Service and Acceptable Use Policy.

There are no changes required to your software, but you will need to
unsubscribe from all Newsgroups other than the Big 8 hierarchies and
the 0.verizon.* hierarchy noted above. The following link explains how
to subscribe and unsubscribe in Outlook Express:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/171190

IMPORTANT: If you continue to subscribe to unsupported newsgroups,
you may experience poor computer performance and slow throughput
speeds. Failure to unsubscribe may also interfere with the
functioning of the Verizon network or use of the network by other
Verizon users, which is a violation of our Acceptable Use Policy.

We appreciate your business and look forward to continuing to serve
you in the future.

Sincerely,


Verizon Online

Sounds like Verizon doesn't really care about your business. To be fair...when I have an outage on my Comcast account (they use GigaNews as far as I know) and I call customer service (haha) I never get anyone that has ever even heard of usenet, yet alone can help. They seem to care even less. But at least it only gives me trouble on rare occasions. I guess I'm lucky...I might have switched but they don't offer FIOS service in my area.

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