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Well, it's finally started, the gestapo is moving in.

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FrizzleFried:
Oh wah...

CableOne stopped providing free newsgroup service 6 months ago.  IE: All newsgroups.

ahofle:
I never found the ISP provided news servers to be worth squat anyway.  Horrible retention, speed, and completion.  I've been using Easynews for years now at $10 a month.  It's one of the few recurring monthly charges I pay that's actually worth it. 

CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: ahofle on July 16, 2008, 02:41:21 pm ---I never found the ISP provided news servers to be worth squat anyway.  Horrible retention, speed, and completion.  I've been using Easynews for years now at $10 a month.  It's one of the few recurring monthly charges I pay that's actually worth it. 

--- End quote ---

Ditto.

I also found, after reviewing my agreement with my ISP, that usenet access was not amongst the services provided under the agreement.

I am kinda surprised that it took you a month to notice that 30% of your Internet experience was missing ...  ;)

Namco:
Wow, I didn't know it was so widespread. It's a shame too because Newsgroups were the backbone of the Internet forever. These ISPs should stop calling it Internet service and instead just call it WWW service or something. At least they're not blocking the traffic.  :-\

Verizon was great. I would pull down 10 concurrent connections with good throughput and unlimited data. I would get my demos, linux distros, and public domain media very efficiently  ;). Retention was around 3-7 days on the busiest of servers, but people reposted so much, it didn't really matter to me. I think I'll miss alt.games.mame and alt.binaries.howard-stern the most though.  :'(

But Cest la vie. There's always offshore torrents and 3rd party NG servers to fill the void.  :applaud:

Namco:

--- Quote from: CheffoJeffo on July 16, 2008, 03:27:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: ahofle on July 16, 2008, 02:41:21 pm ---I never found the ISP provided news servers to be worth squat anyway.  Horrible retention, speed, and completion.  I've been using Easynews for years now at $10 a month.  It's one of the few recurring monthly charges I pay that's actually worth it. 

--- End quote ---

Ditto.

I also found, after reviewing my agreement with my ISP, that usenet access was not amongst the services provided under the agreement.

I am kinda surprised that it took you a month to notice that 30% of your Internet experience was missing ...  ;)

--- End quote ---

My hard drives were full man. It Takes me a long time to clean them up so I can start downloading again. I took a few months off and just recently finally got around to burning all the isos and "stuff" off my disks so that I can update the groups. Whenever I update my groups and browse what's out there, I end up queuing up hundreds of parts and fill up my hard drives pretty quick. That's quite a lot of shareware, indie music, and silent-movies that ends up on there.  ;)

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