[ale] bellsouth blockage

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 17:47 -0500, Mike Harrison wrote:
> > you are possibly looking for an "all in one" kind of deal, but i have
> > given up on my ISP having decent newsgroups.
> 
> As a former ISP owner, I can tell you it's because they get tired of being 
> subpoenaed for records of who posted every child porn. copyrighted, 
> trademarked, intellectal property violation, sodomy, 'perverted' or 
> threatening message on a newsgroup.

And the spam and virus posts in the pr0n groups is getting..., er,
um, ...

:)

I would imagine the legal mess with news servers to be exactly that,
Mike - a mess. That explains the proliferation of off shore news
services.

That said, Speakeasy has pretty good news services. I don't know if it
is filtered at all or not. But the list is huge and they seem to keep
messages for a long time. 
> 
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