Verizon banned Alt.* newsgroups

[olds]

Originally posted by: finite automaton

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
You'll have to get the kiddie porn somewhere else.

Would a good start be your closet?

Fucking n00b. Everyone knows it's in my basement. :roll:

 

[idiotekniQues]

midget porn is better, takes less bandwidth

 

[Zee]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Scary, did not realize US ISPs were already getting into censorship/blocking.

has almost nothing to do with censorship. It's cost saving to drop newsgroups and lots of ISP's are on that bandwagon.

along with the stupid bandwidth cap bullshit that some companies are trying to implement

 

[Triumph]

Originally posted by: SludgeFactory
For a third party provider, Astraweb works for me. Can be had for $11/month unlimited, retention has been bumped up 160 days.

I'm really not sure why the big boys waited so long to ditch usenet. Maybe some of the old techies behind the scenes were hanging on to the feeds out of nostalgia. I guess it was just too easy to get rid of it when the NY attorney general got a bug up his ass about kiddie porn and usenet earlier this year, and made a big deal about finding it in 88 newsgroups, which is something like 0.1% of usenet groups. I doubt there are even 88 groups that are regularly trafficked by pedos and crammed with porn (i.e. a single dickhead spammer could effectively taint 88 groups pretty much instantly with a good crossposting) but what do I know about that pedo crap. I'm *totally* into S&M, pissing, and trannies. Anyway, some of the big ISP's took that as an opportune time to exit stage left. They dump a service that costs them money and maybe 2% of their customers will even notice, a grandstanding politician gets to claim victory, and his teenage son is probably pulling down a bestiality torrent and browsing pedo forums as we speak. Win win win!

It is kind of sad that the discussion part of usenet isn't nearly what it used to be since everybody bailed for forums. The idiot factor seems much higher with forums, and I find forum trolls are mostly a pale imitation of the brotherhood of dedicated, unemployed, sociopathic, old-school usenet trolls.

It was MUCH easier to spam usenet than to spam forums. Thus I say that the idiocy factor is lower, because it is harder. Usenet was great for the time, but forums are by far superior.

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: Squisher

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
How is newsgroups different then forums though? How can they block "all" of them? Guess you can always use proxies and stuff though but it's a matter of time till they start blocking those too.

Newsgroups aren't part of the web, but are the oldest part of the internet. They look like forums, but you usually access them through your email reader or a dedicated reader. They are generally unmoderated.

Comcast is dropping all newsgroup support. Because I use newsgroups like I use ATOT I don't download much and am satisfied using a free server. I use motzarella.org

Yet another reason for my hatred of Comcast to grow.:disgust: