this article says "block," but I grant you that it appears to be on one person's blog and could be wrong. Are you looking at another article and if so where? I don't like speaking up on behalf of porn, but that is where First Amendment fights tend to take place.
On 6/12/08, Cameron Childress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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:261795 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
