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I have sent the following to Verizon. I hope more do the same. They are eliminating access to all but 8 supergroups.

I have sent the following to the Verizon. I hope more will do the same.

Why are you deleting perfectly good newsgroups from your service? I routinely access the following" alt.autos.jaguar alt.autos.subaru alt.engineering.electrical alt.ham-radio alt.os.linux.ubunt rec.radio.amateur.homebrew If my access is denied, I will encourage my Senate and House delegations to enact legistation that will restore my legitimate access to these groups. I think the last thing you would want is more legislation on your networks.

Al

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Al
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It's all about the children:

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Time Warner is shutting down -all- usenet access for me this month.

Steve

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Steve Jones

I switched to individual.net after discovered that Comcast block usenet access from outside (e.g. when traveling with the laptop). I still got access to alt.*.

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AlFire

Check out Supernews:

Fix you right up, they will.

ByeBye! S.

Steve Jernigan KG0MB Laboratory Manager Microelectronics Research University of Colorado (719) 262-3101

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S

Supernews is now Giganews, which isn't half as good. I use them, but am moving in a couple of weeks to news.individual.net. It should offer better service at a similar price.

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Catherine Jefferson

??? Supernews is still Supernews as far as I can tell; Giganews is something else entirely. A spin-off company maybe?

ByeBye! S.

Steve Jernigan KG0MB Laboratory Manager Microelectronics Research University of Colorado (719) 262-3101

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S

Do you actually think someone cares about Usenet?

Back when I was a sys-admin at a major ISP in the late 90's, they were already calling it a non-investment service.

Elected officials will totally ignore you, as they can also care less about Usenet.

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Valued Corporate #120,345 Empl

You could try this ISP. I believe they cover most of the U.S. now. They still believe in this stuff.

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Bob Noble

news.individual.net works well, fast, etc. the only downside is that retention of messages is quite low - like a few week into past. at list on the groups I care of.

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AlFire

When all the majors are gone, where will the traffic come from?

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Valued Corporate #120,345 Empl

They cut ALL the alt. groups I think.

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Paul Knudsen

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