Usenet going bye bye

[Brian Kelsay]

I'd bet they are trying to cut down on bandwidth usage also.  Comcast has
tried to block torrents, they have cycled connections so big downloads die,
blocked home servers, the list goes on and on.   It's almost like they don't
want intelligent customers that use the service.  If they had competition,
they'd lose customers and possibly go out of business just on their poor
customer service to cable TV customers.

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Jeffrey Watts <> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 1:33 AM, Leo Mauler <> wrote:
> >
> > However, condemning and ending Usenet because Usenet can easily be used
> to distribute child pornography is rather like condemning and ending
> Bittorrent because it can easily be used to pirate music and movies.  Tools
> with both legal and illegal uses shouldn't be banned solely on the
> possibility that they could be used for illegal purposes.
>
> Well, the excuse might be child pornography, but I can guarantee the
> the reason is due to expense.  I bet the ISPs have been looking for a
> reason to jettison USENET for a long time now (sorry Adrian, can't do
> it any more).
>
> Jeffrey.
>



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