Verizon has killed access to this newsgroup

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Well, it appears that anyone who posted in, or read this group that is a
Verizon customer is now toast. Nothing like killing off a very useful
group - yeah, I know there's a bunch of trash in alt.*, but many of the
groups are like this where useful information is passed. Real controversial
stuff here, like which is better.... dino or synthetic oil?
 
Bob said:
Well, it appears that anyone who posted in, or read this group that is a
Verizon customer is now toast. Nothing like killing off a very useful
group - yeah, I know there's a bunch of trash in alt.*, but many of the
groups are like this where useful information is passed. Real controversial
stuff here, like which is better.... dino or synthetic oil?
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It's not just Verizon......Time Warner Road Runner killed all newsgroups
on 6-23.

You can do what I did. I went to TeraNews for free newsgroups. Not
spam, just a solution. It will cost a one time $3.95 setup fee and you
can download up to 50 Mb a day. Plenty of bandwidth to read a text group.

https://secure.usenetbilling.com/ne...951&action=Create+New+Account&vendor=teranews
 
It's not just Verizon......Time Warner Road Runner killed all newsgroups
on 6-23.

You can do what I did.  I went to TeraNews for free newsgroups.  Not
spam, just a solution.  It will cost a one time $3.95 setup fee and you
can download up to 50 Mb a day.  Plenty of bandwidth to read a text group.

https://secure.usenetbilling.com/newbilling/manageaccount.cgi?referre...
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REPLY: Im on Verizon Broadband right now , and im accessing this
NG. Ive never had a problem.
 
REPLY: Im on Verizon Broadband right now , and im accessing this
NG. Ive never had a problem.

No, you are on "Cellco Partnership DBA Verizon Wireless", and you are
posting / reading via Google Groups. I wouldn't exactly call cellular based
Internet anything close to broadband. Verizon, the actual Internet provider,
has removed alt.* from their News servers. Try accessing Verizon's News
server, and see how well that works.
 
Well, it appears that anyone who posted in, or read this group that is a
Verizon customer is now toast. Nothing like killing off a very useful
group - yeah, I know there's a bunch of trash in alt.*, but many of the
groups are like this where useful information is passed. Real controversial
stuff here, like which is better.... dino or synthetic oil?
Click to expand...

Does this mean we can get out of our contracts for Verizon DSL due to
the fact that they changed their service???
 
Well, it appears that anyone who posted in, or read this group that is a
Verizon customer is now toast. Nothing like killing off a very useful
group - yeah, I know there's a bunch of trash in alt.*, but many of the
groups are like this where useful information is passed. Real
controversial
stuff here, like which is better.... dino or synthetic oil?
Click to expand...

Does this mean we can get out of our contracts for Verizon DSL due to
the fact that they changed their service???

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Not likely. Most of those contracts don't guarantee anything and allow the
ISP to discontinue or change anything they want. They don't even mention
usenet, so it would be pretty hard to win that one.
 
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