begin quoting Randall Shimizu as of Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:10:11PM -0700: > 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."
Sounds like it's time to leave Time-Warner. Usenet does need to be pruned; it's easy to create a newsgroup, but many of them are rather defunct. > This is really distrubing since usenet is universal newsgroup for the > web. Um... perhaps you forget where the term 'newsgroup' comes from? Usenet only provides anything to the 'web by accident. > There is a very wide range of subjects and most is not sex related. > Personally I prefer Google Groups. Google groups is widely despised on Usenet. Its interface is confusing, given the rate at which otherwise nominally intelligence and competent people post inappropriate things in bone-headed manners. > Google Groups has a fairly friendly > interface plus you don't have to download all the messages to your > machine. Perhaps you should look into software called "newsreaders". Usenet does not require that you set up your own server. It's P2P between the servers and client-server to the end-application. It's one of the original P2P networks. > 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.. NIH. -- It's gotten harder to search google groups in the past couple of years. Stewart Stremler -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
