Doesn't look like they are actually blocking Usenet, just not hosting it on their own servers anymore. There's so much binary content up there right now that it must take quite a bit of equipment to keep it maintained.
In my own experience, most big Cable/Phone ISPs have crappy Usenet servers anyway. Slow and tons of incomplete parts. MindSpring was a pioneer in the Usenet space and had great newsgroup servers, but then EarthLink bought them and it all went to shit. Speakeasy has awesome servers, but they have always caped the download at something like 1 gig a month. You can buy more bandwidth relatively cheaply though... Their reason for this is simple, Usenet's used by a very small percentage of subscribers, usually more technical subscribers, and there's no reason everyone else should have to pay for all that equipment and bandwidth overhead. I actually kinda agree with that for Newsgroups because they are SOOOO bandwidth heavy and disk IO intensive, but not for generalized bandwidth. -Cameron On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Verizon__Time_Warner_Cable__and_Sprint_To_Block_Usenet -- Cameron Childress Sumo Consulting Inc http://www.sumoc.com --- cell: 678.637.5072 aim: cameroncf email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:261787 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
