SBC/Pacbell To Filter 90% Of alt.binaries Groups

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday September 1, 2001 @02:22AM from the no-more-exotic-butterfly-pictures dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "I received an email from PacBell.net (Pacific Bell's ISP), stating that they're transitioning their usenet services to Prodigy. They're making a few changes along the way." He excerpts from the email: "In addition, after evaluating possible copyright infringement issues, newsgroup usage and the cost of providing newsgroup access, we will no longer offer some alt.binary newsgroups. For a list of alt.binaries that will no longer be offered, please refer to our FAQ at http://global.pacbell.net/usenet_update.html.' Note that the link currently doesn't go to the right place. After telephoning SBC, I was informed that upwards of 90% of the alt.binaries.* groups are going to be blocked."

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Re:Bandwidth Capped on Newsgroup Access by drsoran · 2001-09-01 03:32 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Don't blame SBC, blame the losers who spend all day flooding their DSL line downloading porn and warez from alt.binaries groups. Usenet is for discussion groups, the web is for porn and warez.