N.Y. attorney general forces ISPs to curb Usenet access | The Iconoclast
- politics, law, and technology - CNET News.com
(http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9964895-38.html?tag=nefd.lede )
"Time Warner Cable said it will cease to offer customers access to any
Usenet newsgroups, a decision that will affect customers nationwide.
Sprint said it would no longer offer any of the tens of thousands of
alt.* Usenet newsgroups. Verizon's plan is to eliminate some "fairly
broad newsgroup areas."
This is really distrubing since usenet is universal newsgroup for the
web. There is a very wide range of subjects and most is not sex related.
Personally I prefer Google Groups. Google Groups has a fairly friendly
interface plus you don't have to download all the messages to your
machine. Awhile back Google acquired dejanews and you had to download
newsgroups until Google wrote their own interface. I was really annoyed
because deja already had a working gui..
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