said by Hayward 
:ANd why woldn't they since without policing, vast majority are illegal. Why should they neet to police that... just do away.
Again the few spoiling things for the many.
There are TONS of CHEAP subscription NEWSGROUP feeds to subscribe to... I see no reason this should be part of ISP service, but for the freeloading 24/7 bloodsuckers.
Most can concede and addition $10/mo or so for all you can eat, and not impact the working of an essentially residential COMMUNICATIONS network, with occasional DL bursts..
Regardless of where the traffic comes from, whether it be AT&T's servers or another newsgroup provider, the data is going to flow down the same pipe 'impacting the working of an essentially residential COMMUNICATIONS network'. The only difference is it doesn't begin the journey within AT&T, it starts some place else. The savings to AT&T may be on the servers used for maintaining the service, but I would believe that this particular server or servers are totally separate entities from the rest of what they do. In other words, moving this traffic to another source will have little impact assuming everyone that is currently using this service begins to pay for it elsewhere.
