Next week Verizon is dropping all newsgroups except comp.*
humanities.*
misc.*
news.*
rec.*
sci.*
soc.*
talk.*

Yep I heard that a while back It's because some new york official found child porn in 88 news groups

I guess the idiot does not know the same stuff is on the net and yet they are not blocking that yet

It kills the ebook, audiobook and TV groups

How many news junkies rely on their isp's version of newsgroups since they usally limit how much you can download at a time

Doesn't matter as long as you are able to grab fresh stuff within ten days when using Verizon. At least with binaries. Not sure how long they keep regular text. Now people will have to pay another provider just for Usenet, but get ten or twenty times the retention.

It's comparable to shutting down the entire internet because someone found some bad stuff on it. Like some have said, it might just be a precursor to metered internet.

If enough people leave verizon they will probably reinstate the groups as them shutting it down was voluntary and not mandatory

The thing is most users don't use usenet and those that do are people that do not rely on their isps version of the usenet

By the way Giganews is offering users of time warner / roadrunner folks a deal to switch to them
http://www.giganews.com/blog/2008/06/special-offer-for-time-warner-usenet.html

There is no competition here, unless you count satellite as competition. I'd rather not pay more for Usenet than I am currently paying for internet service.

Write your isp then as I quit relying on my isp when they only allowed 2 gigs per month and never had all the headers to alot of stuff i wanted

Found similar service for about $6.00 a month.

Cool Pm the link so I can look at it

Pm you? You may have Joseph's Cherry Stick, but that doesn't mean we will Pm each other!

You love Pming me and Gweep You know it !!!

What has Gweep been telling you? It's lies I tell you, Lies!

He told me he calls you snookims once in a while

Wrong. It's snookiepoo

Don't encourage him Gweep, he'll get ideas.

Ohh my!!!! The ideas I have now.

Quick, to the batcave!

My modem belched. I spoke to Verizon support and reset my modem with the reset button. It refused the access passwords to reset my passwords. The techie didn't understand me when I mentioned another access route for which I needed codes
Two calls later I Found one that knew what I was talking about. I dropped the DHCP connection and setup a direct access PPoE connection. It should keep me up until I replace my modem

Yep Gottat love how the first thing they do is tell you to reset your modem when usally its a network problem

Delayed update. My replacement modem arrived. It's an updated model with new protocols. My Safari settings gave it a headache, so, instead of erasing all my cookies I configured with Firefox.
Once configured Safari is fine

My modem reset it's self again. Every 4-6 weeks my modem resets,
Iy's on, blinking merrily away, just won't let anything in or out.
I call Verizon, we re-config the modem (not my computer) and
start another cycle. This is my 3rd modem
I think it's a silver bullet to check for illegalites causing it

Maybe you need a router as mine rarely resets Gweep.

My DSL went wonkie Saturday. Repairman just left (looks and acts like Nathan Lane) Said wires were out of sync