Many major ISPs aren't peering usenet anymore. The excuse given is that
they wanted to stop distribution of kiddie porn in the binary groups, so
they killed ALL groups. Truly ironic, as usenet should be text only. So a
better idea would have been to just kill all the binary groups that don't
belong on usenet anyway...
Result is, traffic to all TEXT usenet groups is down (by my estimate) at
least 90%.
If you ask me, it is an attempt to kill free speech, using "it's for the
children" as a lame excuse. -Dave
Lou wrote:
> It's been three days and I haven't seen a new post (spam is filtered out,
> but I haven't even seen a new spam address). Did this once great group die?
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Come get your ticket to CyberFROG city
No, I just decided not to play your silly game is all. *Some* of us know proper
manners
Very few. I used to take calls from *rank* noobs,
Hamster isn't a newsreader it's a mistake!
El-Gonzo Jackson FROGS both me and Chuckcar
Using my technical prowess and computer abilities to answer questions beyond the
realm of understandability
Regards Tony... Making usenet better for everyone everyday