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OT - Free newsgroup access for Roadrunner / Verizon people
Hey there,
I stopped using Roadrunner's news servers a year ago, so their decision to drop newsgroups won't effect me, but I thought the following info might be helpful. Newsguy is giving away a free month of newsgroup access to Roadrunner and Verizon customers, when you buy any of their accounts. They also have a free 2 day trial so you can check them out before buying anything... Free Month - http://newsguy.com/freemonth.htm Free Trial - http://newsguy.com/overview.htm I've used Newsguy for the past year and have been really happy with their service (long retention, no missing posts, fast dloads). Currently using one of their 50 Gig accounts ($8 month) but they have smaller & larger accounts depending upon what you need. Just my $.02 - F |
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Frank wrote:
Hey there, I stopped using Roadrunner's news servers a year ago, so their decision to drop newsgroups won't effect me, but I thought the following info might be helpful. Newsguy is giving away a free month of newsgroup access to Roadrunner and Verizon customers, when you buy any of their accounts. They also have a free 2 day trial so you can check them out before buying anything... Free Month - http://newsguy.com/freemonth.htm Free Trial - http://newsguy.com/overview.htm I've used Newsguy for the past year and have been really happy with their service (long retention, no missing posts, fast dloads). Currently using one of their 50 Gig accounts ($8 month) but they have smaller & larger accounts depending upon what you need. Just my $.02 - F Why pay anything when you can get it free? news.motzarella.org Works great for me and it's fast. No binaries to speak of but most will be done the road in a few months anyway. -- "You can lead them to LINUX but you can't make them THINK" Running Mandriva release 2008.0 free-i586 using KDE on i586 |
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OT - Free (for 30 days) newsgroup access for Roadrunner / Verizon people
"Frank" wrote in message ... Hey there, I stopped using Roadrunner's news servers a year ago, so their decision to drop newsgroups won't effect me, but I thought the following info might be helpful. Newsguy is giving away a free month of newsgroup access to Roadrunner and Verizon customers, when you buy any of their accounts. They also have a free 2 day trial so you can check them out before buying anything... I corrected the subject line Free is not free if you have to pay starting in 30 days. There are plenty of "pay for" servers. I have no idea if these places are good or not, but it is a start. http://www.newsservers.net/FreeNewsServers.php http://www.canue.com/ |
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According to the email I got from Verizon advising of the change, accessing
the alt.binaries through other news servers but via Verizon still vilates their terms of use. Not sure how they will police it but that is what they said. Here is the text of the message from Verizon. Dear Verizon Online Customer, As a Verizon Newsgroup service user, we wanted to let you know about some important changes that we will soon be making to our Newsgroup service. On June 24, 2008, we will be modifying our Newsgroup offerings to only offer groups in the Big-8 Newsgroup hierarchies, which are listed below. The 0.verizon.* newsgroup hierarchy will also continue to be available. Users will not be able to post or download from any other newsgroups using our Newsgroup service. comp.* humanities.* misc.* news.* rec.* sci.* soc.* talk.* More details regarding the Big 8 newsgroup hierarchies is available at: http://www.big-8.org/. This change will not affect your Internet access service. If you would like to subscribe to newsgroups other than those we offer, you will need to subscribe to a separate commercial news service. Please note that your use of any such service is still subject to our Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy. There are no changes required to your software, but you will need to unsubscribe from all Newsgroups other than the Big 8 hierarchies and the 0.verizon.* hierarchy noted above. The following link explains how to subscribe and unsubscribe in Outlook Express: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/171190 IMPORTANT: If you continue to subscribe to unsupported newsgroups, you may experience poor computer performance and slow throughput speeds. Failure to unsubscribe may also interfere with the functioning of the Verizon network or use of the network by other Verizon users, which is a violation of our Acceptable Use Policy. We appreciate your business and look forward to continuing to serve you in the future. Sincerely, Verizon Online "Frank" wrote in message ... Hey there, I stopped using Roadrunner's news servers a year ago, so their decision to drop newsgroups won't effect me, but I thought the following info might be helpful. Newsguy is giving away a free month of newsgroup access to Roadrunner and Verizon customers, when you buy any of their accounts. They also have a free 2 day trial so you can check them out before buying anything... Free Month - http://newsguy.com/freemonth.htm Free Trial - http://newsguy.com/overview.htm I've used Newsguy for the past year and have been really happy with their service (long retention, no missing posts, fast dloads). Currently using one of their 50 Gig accounts ($8 month) but they have smaller & larger accounts depending upon what you need. Just my $.02 - F |
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We appreciate your business and look forward to continuing to serve you in
the future. "serve"?? Newspeak for "... continuing to f*ck you over in the future." Verizon has to love it ... they get to reduce services you PAID for, under the guise of "public good". In reality, it's nothing more than censorship ... EXACTLY the kind of crap you should expect when you dumb down a populace. -- www.e-woodshop.net Last update: 5/14/08 KarlC@ (the obvious) |
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on 6/21/2008 9:25 AM Jay R said the following:
According to the email I got from Verizon advising of the change, accessing the alt.binaries through other news servers but via Verizon still vilates their terms of use. Not sure how they will police it but that is what they said. Here is the text of the message from Verizon. Dear Verizon Online Customer, As a Verizon Newsgroup service user, we wanted to let you know about some important changes that we will soon be making to our Newsgroup service. On June 24, 2008, we will be modifying our Newsgroup offerings to only offer groups in the Big-8 Newsgroup hierarchies, which are listed below. The 0.verizon.* newsgroup hierarchy will also continue to be available. Users will not be able to post or download from any other newsgroups using our Newsgroup service. comp.* humanities.* misc.* news.* rec.* sci.* soc.* talk.* More details regarding the Big 8 newsgroup hierarchies is available at: http://www.big-8.org/. This change will not affect your Internet access service. If you would like to subscribe to newsgroups other than those we offer, you will need to subscribe to a separate commercial news service. Please note that your use of any such service is still subject to our Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy. There are no changes required to your software, but you will need to unsubscribe from all Newsgroups other than the Big 8 hierarchies and the 0.verizon.* hierarchy noted above. The following link explains how to subscribe and unsubscribe in Outlook Express: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/171190 IMPORTANT: If you continue to subscribe to unsupported newsgroups, you may experience poor computer performance and slow throughput speeds. Failure to unsubscribe may also interfere with the functioning of the Verizon network or use of the network by other Verizon users, which is a violation of our Acceptable Use Policy. We appreciate your business and look forward to continuing to serve you in the future. Sincerely, Verizon Online It looks like you would not be able to access this group, or any other alt.* group, including the non-binary alt groups, like alt.home.repair, alt.building.construction, alt.autos.*, etc. Perhaps, they can revise that to just not carry alt.binaries.*, alt.binary.*, and the misspelled alt.binares.*. "Frank" wrote in message ... Hey there, I stopped using Roadrunner's news servers a year ago, so their decision to drop newsgroups won't effect me, but I thought the following info might be helpful. Newsguy is giving away a free month of newsgroup access to Roadrunner and Verizon customers, when you buy any of their accounts. They also have a free 2 day trial so you can check them out before buying anything... Free Month - http://newsguy.com/freemonth.htm Free Trial - http://newsguy.com/overview.htm I've used Newsguy for the past year and have been really happy with their service (long retention, no missing posts, fast dloads). Currently using one of their 50 Gig accounts ($8 month) but they have smaller & larger accounts depending upon what you need. Just my $.02 - F -- Bill In Hamptonburgh, NY To email, remove the double zeroes after @ |
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"Jay R" wrote in message news:gj77k.73$is1.56@trndny01... According to the email I got from Verizon advising of the change, accessing the alt.binaries through other news servers but via Verizon still vilates their terms of use. No, that is not correct. Please note that your use of any such service is still subject to our Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy. See, it does not say violation, it just says you still have to stay in compliance with their TOS, such as no spamming, no child porn, etc. |
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In all honesty, I think the porn aspect is just something to hide behind.
It is all about bandwidth and how it is used. I grab ebooks and music from a couple of the newsgroups. I also have a couple of newsgroups on wood, trains and guns that post a lot of pictures. I left Comcast years ago because they limited the total message size over a monthly period. I just saw they are testing a plan in Texas markets to limit downloads to 5 gig a month. The plan is to charge for more. I suspect that Verizon will go the same way. "Swingman" wrote in message ... We appreciate your business and look forward to continuing to serve you in the future. "serve"?? Newspeak for "... continuing to f*ck you over in the future." Verizon has to love it ... they get to reduce services you PAID for, under the guise of "public good". In reality, it's nothing more than censorship ... EXACTLY the kind of crap you should expect when you dumb down a populace. -- www.e-woodshop.net Last update: 5/14/08 KarlC@ (the obvious) |
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