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Old June 25th 08, 09:10 AM posted to alt.politics,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.collecting.8-track-tapes
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Default Verizon dumps 26457 alt.* NGs, as promised

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:01:11 GMT, (Andy) wrote:


Road Runner news groups were shut down by 12pm in most states on the
23rd and by 3 for the rest. snip


Bush/Cheney and the neocons have been wanting to eliminate Usenet for
some time...too many of their little scams and scandals have a way of
breaking in Usenet political groups and then find their way into the
morning papers. Remember PlameGate? That started surfacing in
alt.politics.* groups long before the big bloggers got ahold of it.
Bush's 9/11 culpability has been discussed on and on in those same
groups. Now, MOST people can't even access these groups without
paying for a commercial service, which would probably let out 80% of
them...or more. Another prime mover: the record labels, who have been
after the mp3 and lossless groups for a long time but lacked the
knowledge, ability or legal premise with which to do it. So, Cuomo's
"kiddie porn" consent decree aids them probably more than it does stop
distribution of kiddie porn in alt.* newsgroups.

Since "Goo Goo Groopz" doesn't even have the ability to get
attachments or binaries, it probably won't be affected much...and
everyone knows that dung heap as being a repository for all the
"lusers" who can't figure out how to make Usenet work for them,
anyway, hence they aren't even worth reading.

Remember, it was Bush/Cheney sycophant AOL that started this by
elimiating Usenet server access from their subscribers' accounts
entirely quite awhile back, even if it was by using their hosed up
client software.
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