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Verizon drops the hatchet on alt.* newsgroups.
Lord Jezo
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Dear Verizon Online Customer,
As a Verizon Newsgroup service user, we wanted to let you know about some important changes that we will soon be making to our Newsgroup service.
On June 24, 2008, we will be modifying our Newsgroup offerings to only offer groups in the Big-8 Newsgroup hierarchies, which are listed below. The 0.verizon.* newsgroup hierarchy will also continue to be available. Users will not be able to post or download from any other newsgroups using our Newsgroup service.
comp.*
humanities.*
misc.*
news.*
rec.*
sci.*
soc.*
talk.*
More details regarding the Big 8 newsgroup hierarchies is available at: http://www.big-8.org/.
This change will not affect your Internet access service. If you would like to subscribe to newsgroups other than those we offer, you will need to subscribe to a separate commercial news service. Please note that your use of any such service is still subject to our Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy.
I wonder how the world will take this...
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More than you'd think.
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
On the flip side, both of those are far more easier to aquire nowadays as well, especially with the advent of the torrent system.
Ars article about it
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Steam: JC_Rooks
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I work on this: http://www.xbox.com
And knowing what kind of content lurks there, I'm not shocked that Verizon axed it.
too good
Dangerously good if you know what I mean.
Is there a guide to finding free porn on newsgroups? Puretna and empornium aren't getting me enough free jollies.
This. Many ISP's here in Sweden cut off Usenet access years ago. Yes, all of it, not just branches of groups.
Get a newgroup miner. Xnews works decently well. Set up your login info for that newsgroup through your ISP. Download away.
I don't mean any offence.
The Transformers Fandom: Consistantly bitching about something or another since 1984.
http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/03/28/warbot_001/ - "WARBOT In Accounting"
Google still has access to most of it except the files. So meh, its not dead yet.
http://groups.google.com/
What has fight club got to do with usenet?
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
doubt it will ever die though, someone will always keep the old systems :-)
It's like SE++ with less moderation and no blue background.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
HINT: I don't get any tv signal at all in my house.
His post is in conjunction with this one:
With Verizon TV, of course!
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
Hint: edit your post. Very, VERY quickly.
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(I'm calling him a pedo)
Er, sorry. I am perhaps mis-reading the rules or not reading the proper rules, but I had believed that my answer was specific enough to the discussion (and didn't go into any sort of "how-to" or encouragement territory). If I should remove that direct reference from my post, I'll happily do so.
Dude, timeshifting TV shows is a perfectly legal application of Fair Use in USA.
Really web forums made the usenet ascii obsolete and although I'm sure there's good stuff at fast speeds available on the binary side, I always had problems with missing chunks most of the time. I don't know if larger files eventually stopped getting split up, but you used to have to download pieces from a bunch of messages then combine them, and there would always be a few missing from my end.
猿も木から落ちる
Yeah, but they always provide the redundancy files so you can patch up the holes.
This is weak, newsgroups were still how I got most of my anime without having to goof around with port forwarding and IP blocking and all the other stupid nonsense that comes with torrents. I remember getting some mixtapes off there that I haven't seen elsewhere as well. I'll probably end up cancelling my Verizon DSL and switching to cable (not just on this, but it's one of many issues) and switch to cable, at least until FIOS comes to town.
Ya, Something did need to be done. Blanket approach? Probably overzealous, But does it cure a serious problem? I would like to think it does. I knew the newsgroups couldn't maintain its status for long. Fuck'em I say. That stuff is gross and people should have their balls ripped off for looking at that illegal stuff. Child pornography is just wrong.
Yes, I understood that.
Rules #1 and #2 of Usenet, those being, of course:
1. You do not talk about Usenet
2. You do not talk about Usenet
And I hereby retort with an suggestion that you gb2/b/ :P
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
I never asked for this!
There is a wealth of information and content besides porn and warez, the more obscure and hard to find the better. It can serve as a great supplement to the mainstream internet.
Timeshifting, yes. Torrents, not so much.