On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Leythos <void@nowhere.lan> wrote:
>In article <Xns9ABC43F352FD0ikkezelf@130.81.64.196>, nobody@nospam.not
>says...
>> Verizon in its inestimably excellent way has shot itself in the foot again.
>> IMNSHO one of the benefits was the relatively slow but otherwise excellent
>> newsgroup service. Now they have decided to drop all alt.* newsgroups and
>> limit themnselves to only the big 8 plus 0.verizon.*
>>
>> comp.*
>> humanities.*
>> misc.*
>> news.*
>> rec.*
>> sci.*
>> soc.*
>> talk.*
>>
>> This is going to impact me on several newsgroups, and I'll have to find a
>> way around it, especially for alt.binaries.woodworking
>
>I use Usenet.com news service, their cheapest package as I don't do
>binaries, and while their standard servers place a little spam at the
>bottom of every post, you can email them for a server name to use that
>doesn't. It has alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking group as well as many
>other "woodworking" groups.
>
Unless you're after usenet binaries, or you don't mind paying for usenet
access, many ISP's have already dropped their usenet servers. Even so, usenet
activity has been continually rising year after year. And with the rise in
usenet activity, the rise in abuses like cracked software, illegal porno,
sporge, spam, and trolls have increased along with it. But so has the
sophistication of the filtering techniques. I like the old police "radar gun"
analogy that says "for every new radar gun, there's a new radar detector."

Anybody who wants free or paid usenet access, independent of their ISP, can
certainly find it. For example, here's a free one news.motzarella.org, or try
searching newzbot.com. If all else fails, you can use the cumbersome Google
Groups. Better yet, subscribe to frequently updated group feeds of your
choice. Anyone looking for "alt.privacy.spyware" articles can find them here:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.p...cs.xml?num=100
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.privacy.spyware?lnk=

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