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Comments on news posted 2008-06-16 15:02:55: As part of last week's anti-child-porn agreement with New York's Attorney General, Time Warner Cable and Verizon agreed to take aim at newsgroups. ..
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pog
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join:2004-06-03
Kihei, HI
 ·Hawaiian Telcom
| They should have done this a long time ago! They could run this service with hardware from 10 years ago and 1/10000th the bandwidth.
Of course, I haven't used nntp for a long time... web forums are so much improved these days! In fact, it was this forum that finally pulled me away from 0.verizon.* and out of nntp altogether.
FWIW, I never liked binaries in newsgroups... still, the omission of alt.* is mildly disturbing. Then again, as mentioned elsewhere, it's not hard to find free access to alt.* ...text groups, that is. IIRC, I used to use what became »www.usenet4all.se/ as a fallback server anyway.
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paj692
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| I think what they're saying there is... It will cause some technical issues if everyone is trying to get header counts for nonexistent newsgroups. It shouldn't, but it sounded that way to me. Just unsubscribe to everything, unless you want the big-8 (woohoo!) and dont use their newserver without unsubscribing from alt.* Whatever! | |
| | LastSurvivor
join:2008-01-02
Toledo, OH
| Re: I think what they're saying there is... said by paj692 :
It will cause some technical issues if everyone is trying to get header counts for nonexistent newsgroups. It shouldn't, but it sounded that way to me. Just unsubscribe to everything, unless you want the big-8 (woohoo!) and dont use their newserver without unsubscribing from alt.* Whatever!
Or, it can be used as an excuse to dump you if you're using too much 'bandwidth' cause you've changed to another newsserver and pulling the same alt.* groups. The wording is vague enough for lawyers to love. | |
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@dc.gov
| Verizon News Release - June 18, 2008 -Excerpts LAS VEGAS - Beginning next week, Verizon will make available to more than 10 million homes and businesses the nation's fastest consumer broadband connections, with download speeds up to 50 megabits per second (Mbps) and upload speeds up to 20 Mbps.
"The mid-tier connection speed in those markets for new customers is being increased from 15/2 Mbps to 20/5 Mbps, and the basic service tier is being increased from 5/2 Mbps to 10/2 Mbps. Existing FiOS Internet customers who are interested in the new speed options can call Verizon for information about the new plans." | |
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ErricZ
@verizon.net | F Fuck Verizon. Typical bureaucratic over-response to a non-issue. Alt.bork.bork.bork has kiddie porn now? Come on. What a joke. Maybe they need to rehire the guys in their tech department. | |
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