"Dave Balderstone" wrote in message
news:010520090022387784%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderst one.ca...
In article , charlieb
wrote:

Activity here seems to have dropped off quite a bit. Is my news server
not getting most messages - or is everyone out enjoying the nice
weather?

Some of the state (cough, New York, cough) AG's in the US of A decided
about a year ago that binary newsgroups were Evil Incarnate and
pressured the major US ISPs to drop them For the Children's Sake
Because There Are Millions of Predators Online AND I NEED TO BE
REELECTED GODDAMIT.

Will NOBODY think of the CHILDREN?

So you're left with those of us who live in countries whose politicos
have found that ****ing bandwagon yet, or people who are clueful
enought to tell the spineless ISPs to go **** themselves, and moved to
new providers.


Yeah I have found most of what you are talking about true considering groups
with pictures. I use ATT and have never had a problem accessing this
particular group but cannot get a.b.p.w. unless I go through Giganews. That
said, I now in the last 4 weeks started to access this group through
Giganews and there is not near the traffic I saw 8 years ago.