FrozenNorth wrote:
Jack Stein wrote:

Han wrote:

Still, I do not expect Verizon to keep usenet all that much longer,
especially not if I have underestimated the manpower required.

Do you expect Comcast to drop multiple email accounts, free web space,
free Usenet, and a bunch of other crap that many people don't know about
or care about? If Verizon drops enough services, Comcast will kick
their ass when time comes to sell their wares. While some here may
think it doesn't matter, I think it matters a great deal if Kate and
others unhappy with something their ISP is doing ****es them off. I can
assure you that by not complaining or caring, nothing good will happen.

http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6579392.html

Hate to break it to you, but.... Comcast is on the list too. Whether they
just drop alt.binaries.* or the whole shebang is up in the air, but I bet
you will lose something.

Hate to break it to you, but if you are right, and all the big providers
drop all binary groups, then binary groups will disappear completely
regardless of who you get them from. Not only because the big ISP's
don't carry them, but because as soon as some freak dumps porn on one of
them, they will likely ban using that carrier on their servers as well.

It's possible but not likely Comcast will drop Usenet, perhaps binary
groups simply because it's easy to eliminate porn by doing that. My
point however is that Comcast is not dropping anything because of the
expense of providing space or transmission of binary groups.

Thanks for the link however, it was a good read. Sounds to me like the
porn sources will be zapped,particularly web sites, not particularly
binary groups. For example, Alt binary photo's original has thousands
of great photographs or our own APBWoodworking. That really would be a
crime if it disappeared. But, like I said, anyone that likes binary
groups is likely to lose if the big carriers drop and plonk anything
that smells of porn. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me that ONLY porn
would be posted to these sites as the freaks would be doing it just to
show they can, and the normal people would be gone.

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Jack
http://jbstein.com