lkboop wrote:

nospam wrote:

Time-Warner is dropping all newsgroups. Verizon is keeping most of
the Big-8 but is dropping the entire alt.* hierarchy, which includes this
group.

Keep this in mind for future posts, and you may wish to migrate any
existing discussions to a non-alt.* group.


WELL HERE WE ARE ANOTHER STUPID RUMOR STARTED -- I CHECKED TIME WARNER
IN SOCAL THEY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THEY HAD BEEN ASKED ABOUT THIS AND THAT
THIS IS TOTALLY FALSE-THEY ARE GOING TO LIMIT AND BLOCK SITES THAT HAVE
APPARENT PORN BOTH ADULT AND CHILD -- THEY HAVE NO INTENSION OF
BLOCKING OR REMOVING ANY NEWS GROUPS WITH INFORMATIONAL VALUE--YOU WOULD
THINK PEOPLE HAVE BETTER THINGS TO DO THAN START THIS NONSENSE


The ISP's would definitely like to shut down UseNet. Yahoo has pointed
the way. It is more profitable to disseminate content through special
interest groups lined with paid advertising than getting virtually zero
from giving bandwidth to offering a newsgroup. Moreover, such discussion
groups only propagate more mailing lists that can be sold.

So, TWC is more enlightened than Verizon and the other traditional ISP's?
Maybe...and maybe not. TWC has more at stake than having an ISP capability.