Re: AT&T/Bellsouth removes alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking

Jay R wrote:
On Verizon, they chopped a lot of good groups.

The software groups for MS and Adobe for instance.

Also most of the discussion groups related to schools used by
classes.

They said in the email announcing the change that accessing the
banned
groups violates their terms of use so a news service is out.

No, that's not what they said. They said "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."

Not a word there about accessing servers other than the Verizon
server, just that if you have your reader set up to read groups that
have been dropped from their server they want you to make it quit
trying to read those groups, and that if you don't do that and it
causes problems for their network they may get cross with you, which
is a perfectly reasonable viewpoint.

They also said, in the same letter, "If you would like to subscribe to
newsgroups other than those we offer, you will need to subscribe to a
separate commercial news service."






I also lost a model railroad and real railroad geoup as well as
LaCrosse and Wresttling.






"Maxwell Lol" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Phisherman <noone@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

The binaries will always be available. All it takes is a few
USENET
providors who are willing to charge extra for this service (which
there are) and people who are willing to pay for them (which
there
are).

But not everyone. Most people are cutting back services due to
housing and energy costs. Plus, many are on fixed income.
Usenet
is part of the Internet and I'm not about to start paying extra
for
it. Next, they will start charging for email.

People pay for what they want. USENET is cheap if all you want is
text.

Some people, however, are willing to pay extra for porn and illegal
downloads.

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--John
to email, dial "usenet" and validate
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)


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