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

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:10:24 -0400, daytripper
<day_trippr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Reality check: this has precious little to do with anything that *any*
>government agency - at *any* level - has had to say on the matter. It was
>merely a gold-plated excuse to enable something the large cable-company
ISPs
>would have eventually done anyway. Now they can hang their virtual hats
on the
>supposition that they're actually doing something "good". Which is BS.
>
>What this is all about is the large cable-company ISPs punting something
that
>(a) provides zero income to them (no place to stick in-line
advertisements),
>(b) costs them money to provide (whether their own infrastructure or
>outsourced), and (c) actually competes with their business model (read:
folks
>downloading content from usenet binary groups are less inclined to "rent"
>anything from cable-company OnDemand offerings).
>
>It's a no-brainer for Time-Warner and Verizon (and likely any other
>large-but-faceless cable-company ISP) to get rid of the virtually
>uncontrollable alt.* hierarchy. And that's the first shoe to drop...

Couldn't have said it better myself...