alt.binaries.freemasonry
David Foster
that they have dropped alt.binaries.freemasonry.
Is this a part of the crackdown on porn? If so,
why pick on the masons?
David Foster
David
All of the alt.* groups were dropped by sbc I believe.
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David
Dave Vick, PM
Probably... The alt.* heirarchy is about to be dropped by Google,
too. That's going to make it a PITA for me to read the group whilst
out here on tour.
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Dave Vick, PM
Lansing (Michigan, USA) Lodge #33, F&AM
(currently sitting in San Francisco)
Jack Wise
>
>
> Probably... The alt.* heirarchy is about to be dropped by Google,
> too. That's going to make it a PITA for me to read the group whilst
> out here on tour.
>
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> Dave Vick, PM
> Lansing (Michigan, USA) Lodge #33, F&AM
> (currently sitting in San Francisco)
>
I've said it before, but it bears repeating: The Houston Area League of
PC Users Group (HAL-PC) has HAL-Net. HAL-Net offers Nation Wide
access numbers and virtually all news-groups at a very reasonable cost.
Here is a link: http://www.hal-pc.org/halnet.html
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Same thing with Verizon.
Dave Vick, PM
> > Probably... The alt.* heirarchy is about to be dropped by Google,
> > too. That's going to make it a PITA for me to read the group whilst
> > out here on tour.
>
> I've said it before, but it bears repeating: The Houston Area League of
> PC Users Group (HAL-PC) has HAL-Net. HAL-Net offers Nation Wide
> access numbers and virtually all news-groups at a very reasonable cost.
Pay for dial-up? Errrr, no.
(I haven't owned a modem in ten years...)
Jack Wise
> On Jul 15, 9:26áam, Jack Wise <jw...@hal-pc.org> wrote:
>
>
>>>Probably... áThe alt.* heirarchy is about to be dropped by Google,
>>>too. That's going to make it a PITA for me to read the group whilst
>>>out here on tour.
>>
>>PC áUsers Group (HAL-PC) áhas áHAL-Net. á HAL-Net offers áNation Wide
>>access numbers and virtually all news-groups at a very reasonable cost.
>
>
>
> Pay for dial-up? Errrr, no.
> (I haven't owned a modem in ten years...)
>
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> Dave Vick, PM
> Lansing (Michigan, USA) Lodge #33, F&AM
> (currently sitting in San Francisco)
>
You don't pay for the dial-up. You pay for the access to the
newsgroups. My dsl provider is Consolidated.net. (I'm not served by
southwestern bell.) However my Newsreader is set to use news.hal-pc.org.
rudebaker
"David" <arcade...@gmail.com> schreef in bericht
news:Xns9ADC4D66C1...@69.16.186.8...
Yep more providers are dropping alt. groups because of "childporn".
It's something like abolishing streets because on some of them
people sell crack. It's weird but that is how the situation is now.
(and I am sure they are so happy with less traffic too, it will safe them a
bundle)
David
Thats just the excuse they are giving, a scapegoat if you will. The
reason is that Usenet has become a strain on hardware and bandwidth not
to mention takedown requests made by the MPAAfia and RIAAfia that are
simply too difficult to keep with and are useding up massive resources
(both hardware and human) and cater to a very small percentage of their
overall users.
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David
David Foster
I don't think so. I'm still getting
alt.masonic.members
The Other David
Crimson Ghost
news:SzGfk.16836$jI5....@flpi148.ffdc.sbc.com:
All the "alt.binaries" are gone.
It's only a matter of time...
Crimson Ghost
David Simpson
<Crimso...@email.com> typed furiously:
No, they've only disappeared from some servers. Giganews still carries
them amongst its over one hundred thousand groups.
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David Simpson
(Unattached MM. Victoria, Australia)
Bad manners should not be a capital crime ...
for a first offence.
Paraphrasing Robert Heinlein,
Chris H
Ghost <Crimso...@email.com> writes
>David Foster <davi...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
>news:SzGfk.16836$jI5....@flpi148.ffdc.sbc.com:
>
>> David wrote:
>>> * David Foster wrote in soc.org.freemasonry:
>>>
>>>> What gives? news.dallas.sbcglobal.net informs me
>>>> that they have dropped alt.binaries.freemasonry.
>>>> Is this a part of the crackdown on porn? If so,
>>>> why pick on the masons?
>>>> David Foster
The alt.binaries take LOT of space.
A lot of it, both the porn and the other groups have content that is in
breach of copyright and it pirated.
A lot of ISP's are getting rid of the binaries groups. They are not
needed so much these days as "everyone" has their own web space. This
has been discussed on the photographing groups for a while.
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David Foster
the alt.binaries, not all the alt groups.
So if someone has a group called
alt.naked.pictures, that's OK. But
alt.binaries.freemasonry or alt.binaries.57chevys
or alt.binaries.cake.recipes gets the ax. Makes
all the sense in the world.
David