Cheri gserviceatinreachdotcom wrote:
Aaron Baugher wrote in message

That's no more censorship than the fact that my library doesn't carry
every book and magazine I want. It's not censorship if they choose
to
spend their grant money on Dickens instead of Penthouse. Internet
providers have to choose which services will cater to the most
customers and make the most profit. Running a full-feed Usenet
server is expensive, and with only a tiny percentage of customers
accessing it, it just doesn't make fiscal sense to keep it up as an
internal service.

Yep, I could almost guarantee that it has everything to do with money,
and very little to do with *social good.*


Exactly! I'm betting ISPs have been hoping for this
moment for a long time. It's a HUGE expense to support Usenet servers that
carry binary
groups. Now they can cut costs and blame it all on someone else.

It wouldn't surprise me a bit to see other ISPs jumping on the bandwagon now
that
the NYS AG office has made itself the perfect scapegoat.
--
Jeri
"Change is inevitable, except from vending machines."