said by Xizer :

[Time Warner has over 7 million Usenet subscribers.

said by hobgoblin :

What?

I have read some inaccurate stuff on here before but that has to be one of the most ludicrous statements I have read.

Try less than 28,000 hits a day.

Hob

said by The Vigilante :

These are, of course, the people who tell you that moving a channel to a tier where subscribers now require to rent a digital box is "A channel service level correction"

»www.timewarnercable.com/socal/pr···rts.html

said by hobgoblin :

What?

I have read some inaccurate stuff on here before but that has to be one of the most ludicrous statements I have read.

Try less than 28,000 hits a day.

Hob

said by hobgoblin :

Of course this site attracts a handful of people that are tech savvy and think that the whole world is like them.

Newsgroups are only being used for nefarious activities anyway and that fits into this site well.

Hob

said by hobgoblin :

Newsgroups are only being used for nefarious activities anyway and that fits into this site well.

said by hobgoblin :

They have 7 million potential subscribers of which less than 28,000 imbibe.

The biggest groups that are hit are the alt binary groups, movies, Porn and Music. Pretty much every one of those groups have material on there that is copyrighted material.

If being a troll is stating facts I am guilty as charged. Its much easier to just exaggerate eh?

Hob

said by rcdailey :

So, if you are a subscriber to TWC Internet (RoadRunner), you are also a automatically usenet subscriber even if you have not set up a usenet account via a news reader client and have not subscribed to any groups? That's a pretty loose definition of a subscriber. At least I subscribed to four groups in which I was interested (no binaries, though). I would think that to be called a usenet subscriber, you'd have to be subscribed to at least one group.

said by Baseline :

You know, I've always tried to respect you for attempting to help the community with their problems.

However, you have a bad problem with constantly trying to put down anyone with the least bit of dissent for this ISP, you endlessly try to squelch debate, and now you go ahead and make a COMPLETELY ASININE AND UNINFORMED comment like that.

I'll have you know that many people, including myself, enjoy newsgroups for freely available LEGAL materials, learning materials, discussions, and many other things. Not everyone is using them for "nefarious activities".

I'd suggest you retract that statement. We all know you work for TW and used to for Adelphia. You've been talking like you're an executive with a stock majority in the company for years, and quite frankly it makes me sick every time I see your stupid little troll icon, because I know there's a good chance the post body will contain your mild trolling efforts.

said by hobgoblin :

Taking an opposite view is not squelching debate. Its encouraging debate. However of course no one wants to debate. You want to trash debate by just saying "this is asinine or uninformed comment"

Go look at Usenet ad tell me what groups have the most posts.
No one needs RR usenet access to access the text groups.

So want to debate facts?
So do you want to debate facts?
or just do what you are accusing me of?

Hob

said by Baseline :

You know, I've always tried to respect you for attempting to help the community with their problems.

However, you have a bad problem with constantly trying to put down anyone with the least bit of dissent for this ISP, you endlessly try to squelch debate, and now you go ahead and make a COMPLETELY ASININE AND UNINFORMED comment like that.

I'll have you know that many people, including myself, enjoy newsgroups for freely available LEGAL materials, learning materials, discussions, and many other things. Not everyone is using them for "nefarious activities".

I'd suggest you retract that statement. We all know you work for TW and used to for Adelphia. You've been talking like you're an executive with a stock majority in the company for years, and quite frankly it makes me sick every time I see your stupid little troll icon, because I know there's a good chance the post body will contain your mild trolling efforts.

said by hobgoblin :

Child Porn?

Where did I ever mention that?

I am talking about copyrighted material, that is the sole purpose of newsgroups unfortunately. Please at least try to keep up.

Hob

said by hobgoblin :

Would it not be better to keep on topic instead of taking personal shots?

Usenet is dead...its touted on line as the last bastion of copyrighted material, the percentage of customers using it is minuscule and it would be better to target resources at something that appeals to the masses.

Hob

said by hobgoblin :

Usenet is dead...its touted on line as the last bastion of copyrighted material, the percentage of customers using it is minuscule and it would be better to target resources at something that appeals to the masses.

Hob