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Verizon blocking access to ALT groups
Just received a notice from Verizon that starting June 24th all but the big
"8" (which doesn't include ALT) will be blocked. Here is a excerpt from their email: Dear Verizon Online Customer, As a Verizon Newsgroup service user, we wanted to let you know about some important changes that we will soon be making to our Newsgroup service. On June 24, 2008, we will be modifying our Newsgroup offerings to only offer groups in the Big-8 Newsgroup hierarchies, which are listed below. The 0.verizon.* newsgroup hierarchy will also continue to be available. Users will not be able to post or download from any other newsgroups using our Newsgroup service. comp.* humanities.* misc.* news.* rec.* sci.* soc.* talk.* More details regarding the Big 8 newsgroup hierarchies is available at: http://www.big-8.org/. |
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Verizon blocking access to ALT groups
Some free servers to try:
http://usenet-news.net/ http://www.news.astraweb.com/ www.teranews.com http://www.motzarella.org/ www.aioe.org Art wrote: | Just received a notice from Verizon that starting June 24th all but | the big "8" (which doesn't include ALT) will be blocked. | | Here is a excerpt from their email: | | | Dear Verizon Online Customer, | | As a Verizon Newsgroup service user, we wanted to let you know about | some important changes that we will soon be making to our Newsgroup | service. | | On June 24, 2008, we will be modifying our Newsgroup offerings to | only offer groups in the Big-8 Newsgroup hierarchies, which are | listed below. The | 0.verizon.* newsgroup hierarchy will also continue to be available. | Users will not be able to post or download from any other newsgroups | using our Newsgroup service. | | comp.* | humanities.* | misc.* | news.* | rec.* | sci.* | soc.* | talk.* | | More details regarding the Big 8 newsgroup hierarchies is available | at: http://www.big-8.org/. |
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Verizon blocking access to ALT groups
Art wrote:
Just received a notice from Verizon that starting June 24th all but the big "8" (which doesn't include ALT) will be blocked. snip It doesn't surprise me at all. Roadrunner will be terminating their Usenet service completely as of June 23rd. If anyone is interested in a text only news server check out news.individual.net . They charge 10 euros/year and payment can be made through PayPal or other ways listed on their website http://www.individual.net/ . NAYY -- Jeri "Change is inevitable, except from vending machines." Modified by MG |
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Verizon blocking access to ALT groups
"Jeri" wrote:
If anyone is interested in a text only news server check out news.individual.net . They charge 10 euros/year and payment can be made through PayPal or other ways listed on their website http://www.individual.net/. They've started taking PayPal? Does it know how to handle the currency conversion? A few years ago I decided against going with individual.net because it was too much a hassle to open an account in Euros specifically for it. |
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Verizon blocking access to ALT groups
Doug Freyburger wrote:
"Jeri" wrote: If anyone is interested in a text only news server check out news.individual.net . They charge 10 euros/year and payment can be made through PayPal or other ways listed on their website http://www.individual.net/. They've started taking PayPal? Does it know how to handle the currency conversion? A few years ago I decided against going with individual.net because it was too much a hassle to open an account in Euros specifically for it. Yes, they've started taking PayPal and it handled the currency conversion seamlessly. From their website overview.... http://www.individual.net/overview.php How can I pay? You can choose from the following payment options: The online payment service providers ClickandBuy (formerly Firstgate) and PayPal, as well as payment by bank transfer to a German bank account of Freie Universität Berlin (for holders of non-German bank accounts, IBAN and BIC are available). -- Jeri "Change is inevitable, except from vending machines." |
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Verizon blocking access to ALT groups
"Art" wrote in message news:GfW5k.6522$Mu.5297@trndny07... Just received a notice from Verizon that starting June 24th all but the big "8" (which doesn't include ALT) will be blocked. Here is a excerpt from their email: Dear Verizon Online Customer, As a Verizon Newsgroup service user, we wanted to let you know about some important changes that we will soon be making to our Newsgroup service. Dear Verizon! I wanted to let you know about some important changes that i will be making for my ISP. Your services are no longer required! :-) Regards A paying customer. |
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Verizon blocking access to ALT groups
Art wrote:
Just received a notice from Verizon that starting June 24th all but the big "8" (which doesn't include ALT) will be blocked. For what I read, they are not blocking anything. What they are doing is not providing a service that they had previously provided. One can obtain newsgroup service from other provides. I use newsguy.com because I was with another provider many years ago (AOL) and I found it then to use a dedicated newsgroup provider for reliable access. If you want to read newsgroups for free, just go to a free provider like google.com and read the groups there. Otherwise, you can pay for a services that provides nntp access. Blocking would mean that verizon is preventing access from using anyone nntp services (newsgroups). That is not the case. On the other hand, I used to be with a service that blocked all outside access to sending mail on port 25 (smtp) except for their mail server. I ended up creating an encrypted tunnel to another service I had so that I could force writes to my own mail service to bypass automatically the ISP blocking bull**** and make it impossible for them to access and/or retain my email. (I also got encrypted POP3 access to boot, encrypted from my ISP's point of view). One could easily do the same thing with nntp. -- Pramesh Rutaji - remove tongue to reply |
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Verizon blocking access to ALT groups
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:54:01 -0600, Pramesh Rutaji
wrote: Art wrote: Just received a notice from Verizon that starting June 24th all but the big "8" (which doesn't include ALT) will be blocked. For what I read, they are not blocking anything. What they are doing is not providing a service that they had previously provided. It's not that simple. They've been pressured by the New York attorney general into enforcing government censorship. No need to go into details, google the new stories. --- Peter 270/216/180 |
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Verizon blocking access to ALT groups
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:30:01 -0400, "FOB"
wrote: http://www.motzarella.org/ snip Even though my Cox cable ISP carries all the newsgroups, I switched to using the free motzarella news server over a year ago, It's much faster than Cox and so far has had zero down-time. (Cox seemed to have news server issues just about weekly). I highly recommend it for those who are losing their Verizon and Road Runner alt. newsgroups, and it's completely free with no strings attached. --- Peter 270/216/180 |
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