On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:38 AM, b_s-wilk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > I only know what I've read, as I don't live in Verizon territory. > > > > http://www.giganews.com/verizon-sprint-special.html > > "According to a recent announcement, Verizon will stop providing > > access to alt.binaries newsgroups on their internal Usenet systems as > > of June 24, 2008. Sprint will stop providing access to alt.binaries > > newsgroups sometime thereafter. " > > > I saw that a few months ago. Never happened here. Perhaps someone at > Verizon actually looked at the news groups and discovered that there's > almost nothing scary about them after all. Or Verizon's techs complained, > and the decision makers actually listened. > > The article says "internal Usenet systems". That would only block employees > and contractors from doing things that aren't work related. That doesn't > appear to refer to customers. > Nope all my VZ:FIOS alt newsgroups died the week I decided to drop Forte's APN service because Verizon was so good. -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
