"Oppie" wrote in message news:OYS5k.4523$Jj1.1291@trndny02...
| Are any other ISPs cutting down on the newsgroups they offer? Verizon sent
| this note that they are cutting the bulk of the groups they carried:
| ==========================
| IMPORTANT: CHANGE IN VERIZON NEWSGROUP SERVICE
|
| On 06/24/2008, Verizon will be modifying its Newsgroup offerings to
| only offer groups in the Big-8 Newsgroup hierarchies, which are listed
| below. Users will not be able to post or download from any other
| newsgroups.
|
| comp.*
| humanities.*
| misc.*
| news.*
| rec.*
| sci.*
| soc.*
| talk.*
|
| More information on the Big 8 hierarchies is available at
| www.big-8.org.
|
| snip
| ======================
|
| Glad that I kept my 30Gig/year for $30 account. I was just about to close it
| figuring that Verizon had most of the groups I use.
|
| Is this all related to the recent blow-up about kiddie porn and limiting
| their liability?
|

Yea I got the same email today as well. Does no good for this group or others like Mozilla.support.Firefox. What news
provider are you going with?

Cheers

I might use AOIE, has worked in the past.