or the alt.* hierarchy only.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9964895-38.html?tag=nefd.lede
N.Y. attorney general forces ISPs to curb Usenet access
Posted by Declan McCullagh
[Update 6/12 11:40 a.m. Verizon has offered more details on what
newsgroups will be removed. And here's background on whether or not
Usenet is being blocked.]
What Cuomo didn't say is that his agreement with broadband providers
means that they will broadly curb customers' access to Usenet--the
venerable pre-Web home of some 100,000 discussion groups, only a
handful of which contain illegal material.
Time Warner Cable said it will cease to offer customers access to any
Usenet newsgroups, a decision that will affect customers nationwide.
Sprint said it would no longer offer any of the tens of thousands of
alt.* Usenet newsgroups. Verizon's plan is to eliminate some "fairly
broad newsgroup areas."
