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Default Verizon gets rid of news:alt.*

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:18:08 +0100, Eeyore
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Oppie wrote:

Are any other ISPs cutting down on the newsgroups they offer?


Yes. Time Warner's dropping them totally.


Is this all related to the recent blow-up about kiddie porn and limiting
their liability?


Yes.

Graham


p.s. I uggest moving the useful alt.* groups to the big * via newgroup requests.


Better get started, then. It's not quite as simple as
"mv alt.binaries.schematics.electronics
comp.binaries.schematics.electronics"

http://www.usenetserver.com/en/faq-creategroup.php

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