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Verizon will be banning alt newsgroups Han 06-13-2008
Posted by Han on June 13, 2008, 6:40 am
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 Verizon in its inestimably excellent way has shot itself in the foot again.
IMNSHO one of the benefits was the relatively slow but otherwise excellent
newsgroup service. Now they have decided to drop all alt.* newsgroups and
limit themnselves to only the big 8 plus 0.verizon.*

comp.*
humanities.*
misc.*
news.*
rec.*
sci.*
soc.*
talk.*

This is going to impact me on several newsgroups, and I'll have to find a
way around it, especially for alt.binaries.woodworking
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Best regards
Han
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Posted by R. C. White on June 13, 2008, 9:14 am
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 Hi, Han.

Did you see the thread just a couple of entries before yours? Check out
"TWC your ISP?", started by Pete the Pilot on 6/11/08.

So we now have Time Warner and Verizon pulling the plug on
alt.comp.software.financial.quicken - and many other excellent newsgroups.
Who's next?

RC
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(Retired. No longer licensed to practice public accounting.)
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Microsoft Windows MVP
(Currently running Quicken 2008 Deluxe in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)

> Verizon in its inestimably excellent way has shot itself in the foot
> again.
> IMNSHO one of the benefits was the relatively slow but otherwise excellent
> newsgroup service. Now they have decided to drop all alt.* newsgroups and
> limit themnselves to only the big 8 plus 0.verizon.*
>
> comp.*
> humanities.*
> misc.*
> news.*
> rec.*
> sci.*
> soc.*
> talk.*
>
> This is going to impact me on several newsgroups, and I'll have to find a
> way around it, especially for alt.binaries.woodworking
> --
> Best regards
> Han


Posted by Han on June 13, 2008, 8:21 pm
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> Hi, Han.
>
> Did you see the thread just a couple of entries before yours? Check
> out "TWC your ISP?", started by Pete the Pilot on 6/11/08.
>
> So we now have Time Warner and Verizon pulling the plug on
> alt.comp.software.financial.quicken - and many other excellent
> newsgroups. Who's next?
>
> RC

Hi RC
There are many newsservers, free and low cost. There is a big discussion
of this Verizon decision in the private (for Verizon customers only)
0.verizon.* hierarchy.

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Best regards
Han
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Posted by Dustin Cook on June 14, 2008, 8:52 pm
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> Verizon in its inestimably excellent way has shot itself in the foot
> again. IMNSHO one of the benefits was the relatively slow but
> otherwise excellent newsgroup service. Now they have decided to drop
> all alt.* newsgroups and limit themnselves to only the big 8 plus
> 0.verizon.*
>
> comp.*
> humanities.*
> misc.*
> news.*
> rec.*
> sci.*
> soc.*
> talk.*
>
> This is going to impact me on several newsgroups, and I'll have to
> find a way around it, especially for alt.binaries.woodworking

You purchase a seperate usenet account from a 3rdparty.


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Posted by David H. Lipman on June 14, 2008, 10:33 pm
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