Usenet going bye bye

[Leo Mauler]

--- On Thu, 6/12/08, Monty J. Harder <mjharder at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Kelsay, Brian - 
> Kansas City, MO <brian.kelsay at kcc.usda.gov> wrote:
> 
> >  Guy at work sent me this.
> >
> >
> >   If thine eye offends thee, cut off thy head:
> "Time Warner Cable said it
> > will cease to offer customers access to any Usenet
> newsgroups, a decision
> > that will affect customers nationwide.
> >
> 
> Does this mean TWC will no longer run news servers, or that
> it will block
> attempts by its customers to access news servers run by
> others?

TWC will no longer offer a Usenet server, but won't block access to other Usenet servers.  Since blocking all Usenet groups to block 88 of those groups is stupid and silly, clearly TWC has been wanting to get rid of Usenet for some time now, and got their excuse from the New York Attorney General.

I'm told Everest will not be blocking Usenet, and if you have to keep TWC, TWC will not block your Supernews, Giganews, and Usenet.com Usenet subscriptions.  Which makes their efforts largely immaterial: people who were getting their "child porn" from Usenet will just keep paying TWC for Internet and pay some other company for Usenet access.