Usenet NEWS vs. Bittorrent - my 2 cents

[Michael Haworth]

It seems that over the weekend, AT&T decided that no one needs to access any
alt.binary.* newsgroup since they are all potentially full of kiddy porn. I
have now stressed to as many people as I could get to that this is a
ludicrous action and the only thing it does is make me look for someone
else. I asked them to at least re-instate alt.binaries.pictures.tall-ships
(old sailing vessels usually) and they (of course) declined as it is
'unmoderated and could contain child pronography'. I love living in a
republic!

Michael Haworth

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