On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:10:11PM -0700, Randall Shimizu wrote: > 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..
Laws like net neutrality don't sound so bad now. It is only a little hop from here to blocking 50% of the Internet TWC and Sprint suspect of aiding copyright infringement. cs -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
