Help us save usenet news for Time-Warner customers

Time-Warner corporate is dropping usenet news as of June 23, 2008.

Please help by asking them to keep it. The person to call works for the TW president:

Barbara Burroughs
phone 203-351-2281

email:

** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

 

You and everybody else...
I'm with Verizon which is dropping everything that is not in the
www.bit-8.org list :
<snip from web page>
Newsgroups whose names begin with one of these components: comp, humanities,
misc, news, rec, sci, soc, talk.
The collective namespace defined by these eight lists of newsgroups is what
we mean by "the Big-8".
<end snip>

I see you have a solution already - posting through a third party server -
Teranews.com (as do I). This seems to be the path of least resistance as the
big ISPs are trying to sanitize their offerings and limit their legal
exposure.

Oppie

 

....The ironic thing about that list you put there, is that I believe for the
most part that those are the least offensive groups. If they want to shut a
group down for legal/illegal crap they should shut down .alt

I use greatnowhere for reading/posting...totally free and no binaries.....

www.greatnowhere.com

IYM

 

Oppie, I'm a late comer to this. I have been on hiatus for a while. I just
found out today that TW has killed NG. If you can read this, you may already
have a new NG server. I have started using Motzarella.org. There are plenty
out there, I was sent this by an online friend:
http://blinkynet.net/comp/newfeed.html that's where I found Motzarella.
Usenet4all filters out Google posts, a good feature if you don;t already
have filters in place. Motzarella has a privacy policy in place, I like that
so I went with them.

 

Hi Marx,
I'm all shifted over to www.teranews.com now. Totally uncensored news access
(until someone shuts them down). Hopefully this will never escalate into a
freedom of speech issue. There's been a lot of noise about class action
suits over cutting of usenet services.
Oppie

 

Oppie, not to get into politics, but I fear a recession brewing. Cutting of
NG are just one of the many services that many companies are cutting out
that consumers just take for granted will always be there. Expect to see
more and more companies cut out extra services to get that bottom line. Ok,
that's my two cents, glad to see you back, I'm glad to be back too.

 

Oppie, interesting stuff, looking at your header, it appears the source is
news.motzarella.org . I was going to use Teranews but found it a bit
confusing as to how to access the free "read and post" part.

 

Wow I was asleep at the wheel! Wtf is with these bean counters?

Oppie Warner Cable didn't just sanitize their offerings, they offer
nothing on the usenet anymore.

Also it wasn't to sanitize anything. It was likely to do 2 things, to
give into the MPAA/RIAA and to increase their profits. The roughly 50
dollars or so TWC costumers pay each month goes to USENET access as
well. Now that they dropped the USENET they wont likely reduce their
rates unless you demand them to do so. Finding a third party usenet
provider is only half of the equation. If you don't get your bill cut
down below 30 dollars a month then what the hell are you paying for?

I'm sick of TWC's crap so I'm researching for a new ISP. I used to
have Earthlink dialup in the past and I looked up their current usenet
access and it isnt great. 5GB a month then they throttle you down to
64kbps. Their cheap cable access is $30 a month at only 750 or so kbps
tops... I seriously want a new ISP. I'm not sure I'll be coming here
much or if at all in the future.

 

Odd about the motzarella. Don't know anything about that...
Teranews is fairly simple to use. For the free service, it's a onetime setup
fee and then a 50MB/day download limit.
They spec out the servers and ports to use. Granted that I'm just short of
being a rocket scientist but I figured it out fairly easily. Eventually I
moved to the paid server which has a better retention and speed.

 

I heard some grumblings about how Verizon's dropping their binaries groups
was related to television service becoming available through them in New
York City. Word has it that this was one way to take back some bandwidth and
sell it for TV service.

I'm not particularly fond of lawyers these days. I saw a car this morning
with license plate lawyer1... nearly busted a cap in his direction.

Yes, was aware of that, just lumped them in with Verizon's decisions.

 

I do have Easynews which is 20gigs a month which roles over but I'd
burn through that in no time now. I got tired of cable tv so I've been
download shows through RR's usenet and using easynews for browsing
because it had image previews... An internet connection without the
usenet access is like leasing a car without ac. In this case a very
expensive car without ac.