picked this up on a different NG!

"Time Warner's Road Runner is discontinuing their coverage of newsgroups.
http://help.rr.com/HMSFaqs/e_newsgro...rmination.aspx They give
everyone until the 23rd of June to buy a 3rd party service if they wish
to continue accessing the newsgroups.
I guess we can thank the child pornography laws for this and can
probably start looking forward to other ISPs doing the same thing in the
future."