But as they said in TWIT, they didn't think it was because of porn it
was because there are downloadable music, movies available and that
the RIAA, and movie folks are behind this, and that they are using
porn as the excuse.
John
On Jul 14, 2008, at 6:59 PM, Bill Bloom wrote:
Just thought that I would pass this along concerning the alt.** news
groups. Bellsouth is not the only one dropping them. I was
listening to TWIT today and it looks like there are several ISP’s
dropping the alt.** news groups (Roadrunner, Comcast and they
mentioned some others). It seems the Attorney General of New York
started a campaign against the news groups because porn was found on
some of them. Here is the link to the podcast - http://twit.tv/twit
On 7/12/08 7:52 AM, "Ed Wiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As an old school intertube user I grew up on newsgroups and
yesterday Bellsouth dropped the bomb.
They dropped all the alt.** groups. Thought I would post for other
Bellsouth users wondering why their favorite newsgroup is not
popping up in Unison. This new fangled Web page business stuff .
Read here.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20772682-Is-ATT-removing-alt-newsgroups
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