A notice to customers by Verizon informs them that the telco will be discontinuing newsgroup service as of September 30. "Newsgroups were initially developed as a text-based way to share information on the Internet," Verizon informs customers in the alert. "Today, demand for newsgroups is much lower, since most users have switched to more exciting ways of getting and sharing information via the Web, such as social networks, email and sites such as our Verizon Central Newsroom." While there's certainly no doubt that "Verizon Central Newsroom" is one of the great new content repositories of the Internet, most ISPs trim newsgroup access to save a buck. Under the guise of fighting child porn, Verizon had already seriously scaled back the number of newsgroups offered.