Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:05:19 -0700, Phlip wrote:
On Jun 3, 9:54 pm, Steven D'Aprano<st...@remove-this-
cybersource.com.au> wrote:
I don't know what rubbish ISPs you're dealing with
You've heard of a little fly-by-night outfit called AT&T?
Yes I have. Aren't they the people who were engaged in a long-running
criminal conspiracy to break the law and commit illegal warrantless
surveillance of American citizens?
If you look at the reviews here:
http://www.dslreports.com/gbu/
they are a distinct second-class ISP, with average B scores. Perhaps
that's better than "rubbish", but it's nothing to be proud about when you
are a company the size of AT&T. When you have that many resources,
anything less than straight A+ is a failure.
And that's not even mentioning their lack of News access, their ham-
fisted and clueless blocking of 4chan (whether in legitimate self-defence
or not), or their stance on net neutrality.
But the really sad thing is that you think that "bigger" automatically
equals "better".
I thought his point was they are big enough to have the resources to
offer newsgroups but don't. If I want fast internet I must use Comcast
and Comcast doesn't offer newsgroups either. Sadly is seems getting
access to newsgroups is getting harder and harder. I much prefer
newsgroups or email lists to web forums.
Regards, Jim
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