Re: Help us save usenet news for Time-Warner customers

Morgans wrote:
> "Usenet user" <usenet_user@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:2c769$4856f848$27746@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Time-Warner cor****ate 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:
> 
> Word is out (on another group) that there is an alternative, and it is
free, 
> at that.
> 
> Set up a new account on your newsreading program, and point it at:
> 
>  nntp.aioe.org
> 
> I have not tried it yet, but several out there say it works well, and it
is 
> available anywhere with an internet connection.

More and more major ISP's are deciding that the legal and technical 
problems in carrying a service that is the biggests and most unruly and 
ungovernable of all the internet services simply isn't worth it for the 
few people who use it regularly.

This is probably good news as those whpo do can move to decdicated 
machines on either a fee basis, or sometimes a free basis.