Curt Welch wrote:
wrote:

Sounds like paranoid bull **** to me. I don't even know who to **** "Alex
Jones" is. Never heard of him.

Cuomo is fighting KP, and I doubt he's fighting anything else (other than
crime in general). The ISPs are just dropping a service that never had
much of anything to do with their business because it's becoming a
political hot potato for them. Cuomo isn't against freedom of speech -
he's just against KP.

Cuomo is against free speech in many ways as well as being anti-gun and
another example of the Democrats in charge in NY. He is trying to build
a base for his own run for the governors office in a few years. Then on
to the BIG chair in D.C.



There are 1000's places you can go on the internet if you want access to
Usenet. Nothing about Usenet will change even if all the ISPs dropped the
service leaving only the 1000 or so Usenet providers to get it from.

If all you want is text access to groups like this one, you can get it for
almost nothing (Free if you are willing to put up with the Google service),
and very low cost if you buy a block account from any of the NSPs that
offer that. http://www.individual.net/ used to give out accounts for free
for access to text Usenet but they got so popular they decided to add a
small fee (10 Euro's per year) for the service.

The reason the NSPs exist is for binary Usenet, not for text. To support
binary usenet, we have racks and racks and racks of disk servers and tons
of bandwidth to pay for. If you pay the rates in the $10 per month range,
you get access to these large binary servers.

You can run a text only Usenet server on a machine that's about as powerful
as a single old home PC and support thousands of users and months of
retention. As such, the services that offer only text access can do it
very cheaply. So for about $10 per year, you can get all the text Usenet
you want.



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Steve W.
Near Cooperstown, New York

Life is not like a box of chocolates
it's more like a jar of jalapenos-
what you do today could burn your ass tomorrow!