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Help us save usenet news for Time-Warner customers
Time-Warner corporate is dropping usenet news as of June 23, 2008.
Please help by asking them to keep it. The person to call works for the TW president: Barbara Burroughs phone 203-351-2281 email: ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** |
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OT: Help us save usenet news for Time-Warner customers
You and everybody else...
I'm with Verizon which is dropping everything that is not in the www.bit-8.org list : <snip from web page> Newsgroups whose names begin with one of these components: comp, humanities, misc, news, rec, sci, soc, talk. The collective namespace defined by these eight lists of newsgroups is what we mean by "the Big-8". <end snip> I see you have a solution already - posting through a third party server - Teranews.com (as do I). This seems to be the path of least resistance as the big ISPs are trying to sanitize their offerings and limit their legal exposure. Oppie "Usenet user" > wrote in message ... > Time-Warner corporate is dropping usenet news as of June 23, 2008. > > Please help by asking them to keep it. The person to call works for the > TW president: > > Barbara Burroughs > phone 203-351-2281 > > email: > > ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** |
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....The ironic thing about that list you put there, is that I believe for the
most part that those are the least offensive groups. If they want to shut a group down for legal/illegal crap they should shut down .alt I use greatnowhere for reading/posting...totally free and no binaries..... www.greatnowhere.com IYM "Oppie" > wrote in message ... > You and everybody else... > I'm with Verizon which is dropping everything that is not in the > www.bit-8.org list : > <snip from web page> > Newsgroups whose names begin with one of these components: comp, > humanities, misc, news, rec, sci, soc, talk. > The collective namespace defined by these eight lists of newsgroups is > what we mean by "the Big-8". > <end snip> > > I see you have a solution already - posting through a third party server - > Teranews.com (as do I). This seems to be the path of least resistance as > the big ISPs are trying to sanitize their offerings and limit their legal > exposure. > > Oppie > > "Usenet user" > wrote in message > ... >> Time-Warner corporate is dropping usenet news as of June 23, 2008. >> >> Please help by asking them to keep it. The person to call works for the >> TW president: >> >> Barbara Burroughs >> phone 203-351-2281 >> >> email: >> >> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** > |
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Oppie, I'm a late comer to this. I have been on hiatus for a while. I just
found out today that TW has killed NG. If you can read this, you may already have a new NG server. I have started using Motzarella.org. There are plenty out there, I was sent this by an online friend: http://blinkynet.net/comp/newfeed.html that's where I found Motzarella. Usenet4all filters out Google posts, a good feature if you don;t already have filters in place. Motzarella has a privacy policy in place, I like that so I went with them. -- marx404 _________________ <IYM> wrote in message . com... > ...The ironic thing about that list you put there, is that I believe for > the most part that those are the least offensive groups. If they want to > shut a group down for legal/illegal crap they should shut down .alt > > I use greatnowhere for reading/posting...totally free and no binaries..... > > www.greatnowhere.com > > IYM > > "Oppie" > wrote in message > ... >> You and everybody else... >> I'm with Verizon which is dropping everything that is not in the >> www.bit-8.org list : >> <snip from web page> >> Newsgroups whose names begin with one of these components: comp, >> humanities, misc, news, rec, sci, soc, talk. >> The collective namespace defined by these eight lists of newsgroups is >> what we mean by "the Big-8". >> <end snip> >> >> I see you have a solution already - posting through a third party >> server - Teranews.com (as do I). This seems to be the path of least >> resistance as the big ISPs are trying to sanitize their offerings and >> limit their legal exposure. >> >> Oppie >> >> "Usenet user" > wrote in message >> ... >>> Time-Warner corporate is dropping usenet news as of June 23, 2008. >>> >>> Please help by asking them to keep it. The person to call works for the >>> TW president: >>> >>> Barbara Burroughs >>> phone 203-351-2281 >>> >>> email: >>> >>> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** >> > > |
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Hi Marx,
I'm all shifted over to www.teranews.com now. Totally uncensored news access (until someone shuts them down). Hopefully this will never escalate into a freedom of speech issue. There's been a lot of noise about class action suits over cutting of usenet services. Oppie "marx404" > wrote in message ... > Oppie, I'm a late comer to this. I have been on hiatus for a while. I just > found out today that TW has killed NG. If you can read this, you may > already have a new NG server. I have started using Motzarella.org. There > are plenty out there, I was sent this by an online friend: > http://blinkynet.net/comp/newfeed.html that's where I found Motzarella. > Usenet4all filters out Google posts, a good feature if you don;t already > have filters in place. Motzarella has a privacy policy in place, I like > that so I went with them. > > -- > marx404 > > _________________ > <IYM> wrote in message > . com... >> ...The ironic thing about that list you put there, is that I believe for >> the most part that those are the least offensive groups. If they want to >> shut a group down for legal/illegal crap they should shut down .alt >> >> I use greatnowhere for reading/posting...totally free and no >> binaries..... >> >> www.greatnowhere.com >> >> IYM >> >> "Oppie" > wrote in message >> ... >>> You and everybody else... >>> I'm with Verizon which is dropping everything that is not in the >>> www.bit-8.org list : >>> <snip from web page> >>> Newsgroups whose names begin with one of these components: comp, >>> humanities, misc, news, rec, sci, soc, talk. >>> The collective namespace defined by these eight lists of newsgroups is >>> what we mean by "the Big-8". >>> <end snip> >>> >>> I see you have a solution already - posting through a third party >>> server - Teranews.com (as do I). This seems to be the path of least >>> resistance as the big ISPs are trying to sanitize their offerings and >>> limit their legal exposure. >>> >>> Oppie >>> >>> "Usenet user" > wrote in message >>> ... >>>> Time-Warner corporate is dropping usenet news as of June 23, 2008. >>>> >>>> Please help by asking them to keep it. The person to call works for >>>> the TW president: >>>> >>>> Barbara Burroughs >>>> phone 203-351-2281 >>>> >>>> email: >>>> >>>> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** >>> >> >> > > |
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Oppie, not to get into politics, but I fear a recession brewing. Cutting of
NG are just one of the many services that many companies are cutting out that consumers just take for granted will always be there. Expect to see more and more companies cut out extra services to get that bottom line. Ok, that's my two cents, glad to see you back, I'm glad to be back too. -- marx404 |
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Oppie, interesting stuff, looking at your header, it appears the source is
news.motzarella.org . I was going to use Teranews but found it a bit confusing as to how to access the free "read and post" part. -- marx404 _________________ "oppie" > wrote in message ... > Hi Marx, > I'm all shifted over to www.teranews.com now. Totally uncensored news > access (until someone shuts them down). Hopefully this will never escalate > into a freedom of speech issue. There's been a lot of noise about class > action suits over cutting of usenet services. > Oppie > > "marx404" > wrote in message > ... >> Oppie, I'm a late comer to this. I have been on hiatus for a while. I >> just found out today that TW has killed NG. If you can read this, you may >> already have a new NG server. I have started using Motzarella.org. There >> are plenty out there, I was sent this by an online friend: >> http://blinkynet.net/comp/newfeed.html that's where I found Motzarella. >> Usenet4all filters out Google posts, a good feature if you don;t already >> have filters in place. Motzarella has a privacy policy in place, I like >> that so I went with them. >> >> -- >> marx404 >> >> _________________ >> <IYM> wrote in message >> . com... >>> ...The ironic thing about that list you put there, is that I believe for >>> the most part that those are the least offensive groups. If they want >>> to shut a group down for legal/illegal crap they should shut down .alt >>> >>> I use greatnowhere for reading/posting...totally free and no >>> binaries..... >>> >>> www.greatnowhere.com >>> >>> IYM >>> >>> "Oppie" > wrote in message >>> ... >>>> You and everybody else... >>>> I'm with Verizon which is dropping everything that is not in the >>>> www.bit-8.org list : >>>> <snip from web page> >>>> Newsgroups whose names begin with one of these components: comp, >>>> humanities, misc, news, rec, sci, soc, talk. >>>> The collective namespace defined by these eight lists of newsgroups is >>>> what we mean by "the Big-8". >>>> <end snip> >>>> >>>> I see you have a solution already - posting through a third party >>>> server - Teranews.com (as do I). This seems to be the path of least >>>> resistance as the big ISPs are trying to sanitize their offerings and >>>> limit their legal exposure. >>>> >>>> Oppie >>>> >>>> "Usenet user" > wrote in message >>>> ... >>>>> Time-Warner corporate is dropping usenet news as of June 23, 2008. >>>>> >>>>> Please help by asking them to keep it. The person to call works for >>>>> the TW president: >>>>> >>>>> Barbara Burroughs >>>>> phone 203-351-2281 >>>>> >>>>> email: >>>>> >>>>> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > |
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OT: Help us save usenet news for Time-Warner customers
Wow I was asleep at the wheel! Wtf is with these bean counters?
Oppie Warner Cable didn't just sanitize their offerings, they offer nothing on the usenet anymore. Also it wasn't to sanitize anything. It was likely to do 2 things, to give into the MPAA/RIAA and to increase their profits. The roughly 50 dollars or so TWC costumers pay each month goes to USENET access as well. Now that they dropped the USENET they wont likely reduce their rates unless you demand them to do so. Finding a third party usenet provider is only half of the equation. If you don't get your bill cut down below 30 dollars a month then what the hell are you paying for? I'm sick of TWC's crap so I'm researching for a new ISP. I used to have Earthlink dialup in the past and I looked up their current usenet access and it isnt great. 5GB a month then they throttle you down to 64kbps. Their cheap cable access is $30 a month at only 750 or so kbps tops... I seriously want a new ISP. I'm not sure I'll be coming here much or if at all in the future. |
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Odd about the motzarella. Don't know anything about that...
Teranews is fairly simple to use. For the free service, it's a onetime setup fee and then a 50MB/day download limit. They spec out the servers and ports to use. Granted that I'm just short of being a rocket scientist but I figured it out fairly easily. Eventually I moved to the paid server which has a better retention and speed. "marx404" > wrote in message ... > Oppie, interesting stuff, looking at your header, it appears the source is > news.motzarella.org . I was going to use Teranews but found it a bit > confusing as to how to access the free "read and post" part. > > -- > marx404 > > _________________ > "oppie" > wrote in message > ... >> Hi Marx, >> I'm all shifted over to www.teranews.com now. Totally uncensored news >> access (until someone shuts them down). Hopefully this will never >> escalate into a freedom of speech issue. There's been a lot of noise >> about class action suits over cutting of usenet services. >> Oppie >> >> "marx404" > wrote in message >> ... >>> Oppie, I'm a late comer to this. I have been on hiatus for a while. I >>> just found out today that TW has killed NG. If you can read this, you >>> may already have a new NG server. I have started using Motzarella.org. >>> There are plenty out there, I was sent this by an online friend: >>> http://blinkynet.net/comp/newfeed.html that's where I found Motzarella. >>> Usenet4all filters out Google posts, a good feature if you don;t already >>> have filters in place. Motzarella has a privacy policy in place, I like >>> that so I went with them. >>> >>> -- >>> marx404 >>> >>> _________________ >>> <IYM> wrote in message >>> . com... >>>> ...The ironic thing about that list you put there, is that I believe >>>> for the most part that those are the least offensive groups. If they >>>> want to shut a group down for legal/illegal crap they should shut down >>>> .alt >>>> >>>> I use greatnowhere for reading/posting...totally free and no >>>> binaries..... >>>> >>>> www.greatnowhere.com >>>> >>>> IYM >>>> >>>> "Oppie" > wrote in message >>>> ... >>>>> You and everybody else... >>>>> I'm with Verizon which is dropping everything that is not in the >>>>> www.bit-8.org list : >>>>> <snip from web page> >>>>> Newsgroups whose names begin with one of these components: comp, >>>>> humanities, misc, news, rec, sci, soc, talk. >>>>> The collective namespace defined by these eight lists of newsgroups is >>>>> what we mean by "the Big-8". >>>>> <end snip> >>>>> >>>>> I see you have a solution already - posting through a third party >>>>> server - Teranews.com (as do I). This seems to be the path of least >>>>> resistance as the big ISPs are trying to sanitize their offerings and >>>>> limit their legal exposure. >>>>> >>>>> Oppie >>>>> >>>>> "Usenet user" > wrote in message >>>>> ... >>>>>> Time-Warner corporate is dropping usenet news as of June 23, 2008. >>>>>> >>>>>> Please help by asking them to keep it. The person to call works for >>>>>> the TW president: >>>>>> >>>>>> Barbara Burroughs >>>>>> phone 203-351-2281 >>>>>> >>>>>> email: >>>>>> >>>>>> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> > > |
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OT: Help us save usenet news for Time-Warner customers
I heard some grumblings about how Verizon's dropping their binaries groups
was related to television service becoming available through them in New York City. Word has it that this was one way to take back some bandwidth and sell it for TV service. I'm not particularly fond of lawyers these days. I saw a car this morning with license plate lawyer1... nearly busted a cap in his direction. > wrote in message ... > Wow I was asleep at the wheel! Wtf is with these bean counters? > > Oppie Warner Cable didn't just sanitize their offerings, they offer > nothing on the usenet anymore. > Yes, was aware of that, just lumped them in with Verizon's decisions. |
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