Proposed Usenet Death Penalty for Australia's Largest ISP

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Proposed Usenet Death Penalty for Australia's Largest ISP

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday March 6, 2003 @07:55PM from the cutting-off-hand-to-spite-face dept.

supine writes "David Ritz has issued a request for discussion on applying a Usenet Death Penalty to Australia's largest ISP, Bigpond (and it's parent company Telstra)." This brought back to memory the time when AOL was facing similar charges.

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Re:Is slashdot messed up for anyone else? by kfg · 2003-03-06 20:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I'd tell you, but I keep getting blank pages and server errors, so I guess you've got to figure it out on your own.

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OMG by Matrix2110 · 2003-03-06 20:36 · Score: 0, Offtopic

They broke the code!
Re:Is slashdot messed up for anyone else? by unitron · 2003-03-06 20:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It means that we'e about to invade Iraq and Ashcroft's first move is to disable Slashdot during the distraction.
Yeah, I'm getting '500' errors. Apparently the slashserver is coming down with the junior version of the flu that everybody's kids are bringing home from school this week.

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Re:Big deal. by FunkyChild · 2003-03-06 23:09 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It's all part of the new subscription deal. It's not a bug, it's a feature!
Re:isn't Usenet dead? by jaavaaguru · 2003-03-06 23:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The guy from my ISP (blueyonder) who came to install teh cable modem at least knew about Linux and told me what to do to get my linux box online (although it was already set up for DHCP, so it worked anyway). ISPs who send out people without explaining differences between operating systems they might expect to find at a customer's site are going to come across as unfriendly to the customer.

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