How long before third-party news providers are forced/coerced to limit newsgroups? [/BQUOTE :
Not long. Maybe a year.
I doubt that The only reason the isps caved on this is what was reported they don't make any money off their newsgroups so why fight it. They AG. knew that so he didn't go after the usenet providers.
The bigger threat to newsgroups is the riaa usenet.com lawsuit.