| NVBell (or PACBell, sbcglobal) newsgroups lacking? I have NVBell service and have noticed that I do not have newsgroups similar to a friend of mine. I realize that the newsgroups provided by each provider may differ, but these are groups like alt.binaries.* that NVBell doesn't even provide!
The NVBell newsgroup structure, in general, seems to be different than anything I am used to...does anyone else notice this, or have any suggestions?
Thanks.... |
|
 Paladin$Have Gun - Will TravelMod 2002
join:2000-04-02
California | The newsgroups have been taken over by sbcglobal.net. They have dumped a lot of the binary groups, supposedly due to copyright considerations, and the last time I tried downloading they seem to have slapped a 128Kbps speed cap on what few binary groups that are left.
If you want decent usenet service I recommend a third party (pay) news service. |
|
| reply to unMourned
In the last several weeks I have noticed 'new newsgroups' coming into SBCGLOBAL. These are almost entirely weird porn binaries; they seem to be phasing back in all the binaries that do not have 'copyrighted' material on them....
Just thought I'd post, maybe try to keep this forum ticking. |
|
|
|
Paladin$Have Gun - Will TravelMod 2002
join:2000-04-02
California | I'll defend Nevada Bell. I want to move to Ely in about 5 years. |
|
| reply to unMourned
Why Ely? From Reno here. |
|
Paladin$Have Gun - Will TravelMod 2002
join:2000-04-02
California | We went thru on the way to Great Basic Nat. Park and I fell in love with the town. It is far from major cities, has nothing to attract hoards of tourists, far from the interstates; yet big enough to have a couple of supermarkets and enough shopping for daily needs.
And if I do need anything large I am within a days' drive of Las Vega, Reno, Salt Lake CIty, and Boise. |
|
