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

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. Binaries newsgroups are dead by Baloo+Ursidae · · Score: 0, Troll

    most of *.binaries.* were obsoleted the moment it became easy and possible to set up a webserver. Hell, even Windows comes with Personal Web Server now.

    So why is it we're mourning the loss of bandwidth wasting uselessness and the all you can eat spam buffet here?

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