[nntp going down in the history books with aol!] was Re: News Reader Question

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

Jay Daniels wrote:
> "Please note that on or around July 15, 2009, AT&T will no longer be
> offering access to the Usenet Netnews service.  If you wish to continue
> reading Usenet newsgroups, access is available through third-party vendors."
>
> Many others too many to list...
>
> OVERHEAD and full of SPAM and JUNK, a good enough reason, no?  Also full 
> of ILLEGAL porn and other illegal stuff PIRATED software, virus, 
> trojans, all sitting on company servers.
>
> I got one word for ya, Liability!  The lawyers are foaming at the mouth!
>
> Good riddance
>
>
> jay
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>   

Many ISPs are closing down their nntp servers for cost reasons.
There are still many ISP-independent NNTP servers in existance which do
NOT suffer from spam, and porn.
news.individual.net is one. I use this and have absolutely no complaints
about the content...


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