On 2011-11-27, Feranija > wrote:
> On 27/11/11 09:10, George wrote:

>> Not to mention comcast. But they did it for the children...

Bullcrap!

> Cox Communictions, AOL, and Time Warner Cable too dropped Usenet
> alltogether citing high maintainance cost and low consumers' interest
> in newsgroups.

Also bullcrap! They did it to avoid litigation by the multimedia
corps. Too much of usenet content was binary chains of entire albums and
movies than could be dwnld'd. You'll notice most of the free or low
cost usenet servers are strictly non-binary.

nb