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2008-06-15 Science & Technology

Verizon stops providing alt. group newsgroups

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-06-15 16:26|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 so
alt.binary.pictures.military
will need a new home?

Posted by 3dc 2008-06-15 16:43|| 2008-06-15 16:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like a good way to cut down on bandwidth use and look pious in the process.

Posted by ed 2008-06-15 17:01|| 2008-06-15 17:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, I assume this is really about the gigantic amounts of (pirated) stuff in the binaries newsgroups.

Posted by JSU 2008-06-15 18:32|| 2008-06-15 18:32|| Front Page Top

#4 It doesn't mean those groups will go away, it just means that Verizon won't carry them on THEIR news servers. You would still be able to access those groups through other people's servers ... even Verizon's own customers will. It won't remove any content, it simply eliminates Verizon's liability by removing it from THEIR servers.

google will still have access to them via google groups for example.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-06-15 20:36|| 2008-06-15 20:36|| Front Page Top

#5 I am gonna go out on a limb and say that this is a bad thing for Cisco and its competitors. It's also good for Verizon and its competitors, because no one wanted to provide a lower level of service if the competition was going to one-up him. This way, everyone cuts off binary news feeds simultaneously, thereby saving a bunch of money.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2008-06-15 22:47|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-06-15 22:47|| Front Page Top

#6 I used to read alt.survivalism. Not because I'm a survivalist, but because it was nice mix of practical advice and whacked out paranioa.

Posted by phil_b 2008-06-15 22:58|| 2008-06-15 22:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Verizon could use the respite from capital spending - it's been shoveling tens of billions of dollars a year into infrastructure and borrowing up the wazoo. Cuomo's initiative is just an excuse.

Posted by Zhang Fei">Zhang Fei 2008-06-15 23:25|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2008-06-15 23:25|| Front Page Top

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