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From: Andreas Kohlbach on 12 Jun 2008 23:09 Golan Klinger wrote on 12. June 2008: > > No single person or entity can shut down the Usenet. ISPs can take their > own news servers offline, inconveniencing the majority of their customers > and saving themselves the cost of maintaining the servers and supporting > those who use them. That is the reason the ISPs aren't fighting back. Like you cannot shut down the internet or SMTP (mail) servers. -- Andreas My Commodore 64 classic game music page at http://freenet-homepage.de/ankman/sid.html
From: Geo on 13 Jun 2008 10:39 Re: Re: Shutting down the Usenet -- this one is for real By: Golan Klinger to comp.sys.cbm on Thu Jun 12 2008 16:22:03 > From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm > > No single person or entity can shut down the Usenet. ISPs can take their > own news servers offline, inconveniencing the majority of their customers > and saving themselves the cost of maintaining the servers and supporting > those who use them. That is the reason the ISPs aren't fighting back. > > If your ISP drops Usenet support, switch ISPs in protest (ideally) and if > that isn't feasible, find a new server here: > > <http://freenews.maxbaud.net/> > > -- > Golan Klinger > Dark is the suede that mows like a harvest. > > --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux NewsLink 1.88 Yeah, Internode (Australian ISP) tried their news service, but there was such an outcry they put it backwithin a few weeks. --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux NewsLink 1.88 BarnabasMusic.com BBS - ssh://brnmusic.synchro.net http://brnmusic.synchro.net
From: Sam Gillett on 13 Jun 2008 01:06 "Rick Youngman" wrote ... > This just hit the net yesterday... it ain't bull-hockey either... > > From Cnet News > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9964895-38.html?tag=nefd.lede > > Many have crusaded for this in the past, but never has it been so wide > spread that a major ISP would consider such a thing... now it's real Hi Rick, You should have posted that to alt.c64 also. They will be affected more than comp.sys.cbm if many ISP's drop all alt. groups. Note that this reply is crossposted to alt.c64. :-) -- Best regards, Sam Gillett Change is inevitable, except from vending machines!
From: Klompmeester on 13 Jun 2008 07:19 "Geo" <geo(a)brnmusic.synchro.net.remove-1xk-this> wrote in message news:4851F9F7.2063.usenet_compcbm(a)brnmusic.synchro.net... > Re: Re: Shutting down the Usenet -- this one is for real > By: Golan Klinger to comp.sys.cbm on Thu Jun 12 2008 16:22:03 > > > From Newsgroup: comp.sys.cbm > > > > No single person or entity can shut down the Usenet. ISPs can take their > > own news servers offline, inconveniencing the majority of their > > customers > > and saving themselves the cost of maintaining the servers and supporting > > those who use them. That is the reason the ISPs aren't fighting back. > > > > If your ISP drops Usenet support, switch ISPs in protest (ideally) and > > if > > that isn't feasible, find a new server here: > > > > <http://freenews.maxbaud.net/> > > > > -- > > Golan Klinger > > Dark is the suede that mows like a harvest. > > > > --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux NewsLink 1.88 > > Yeah, > > Internode (Australian ISP) tried their news service, but there was such an > outcry they put it backwithin a few weeks. A couple of months, but yeah... I whinged no end, as did plenty of others. It didn't help their cause that they increase costs at the same time as dropping their usenet service, I know I was ropeable.
From: Rick Youngman on 14 Jun 2008 00:13
On Jun 12, 10:06 pm, "Sam Gillett" <sgillettnos...(a)diespammergte.net> wrote: > "Rick Youngman" wrote ... > > > This just hit the net yesterday... it ain't bull-hockey either... > > > From Cnet News > > >http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9964895-38.html?tag=nefd.lede > > > Many have crusaded for this in the past, but never has it been so wide > > spread that a major ISP would consider such a thing... now it's real > > Hi Rick, > > You should have posted that to alt.c64 also. They will be affected more than > comp.sys.cbm if many ISP's drop all alt. groups. Note that this reply is > crossposted to alt.c64. :-) > -- > Best regards, > > Sam Gillett > > Change is inevitable, > except from vending machines! Hopefully "most" can read it then still Sam It's just kinda scary that (at least to me) Major ISP's are dictating "policy" That's not to say, someone can't use a free "news-provider" as an alternative. this is not the point.... it's more of a question of "follow the leader".. If the BIG guys start running scared, what's to stop the little guys ??? from following suit ??? More latter |