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[email protected] · July 19th 08, 08:33 PM posted to alt.tv.tech.hdtv,rec.radio.amateur.antenna

In alt.tv.tech.hdtv Alan F wrote:
| wrote:
| In alt.tv.tech.hdtv wrote:
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| | PS Verizon messed up my usenet access when they dropped alt.* groups.
| | Thanks a lot, Verizon and the NY AG.
|
| I trust that you are calling them every single day to tell them that it is
| absolute stupidity to remove newgroups that have no child porn as part of a
| compaign they claim to be against child porn.
|
| And then you switch to using the NUMBER ONE source of Usenet spam as your
| alternative? Just pray that the spammers don't start doing "followup spam"
| via Google groups to try to get past the blocking that allows followups to
| bypass filters (e.g. I'll figure out how to block it all if spammers do that
| before Google cleans house, and will be quite willing to tell everyone else
| how to do it).
|
| You could, instead, switch to one of the paid Usenet providers, and just
| treat it as Verizon raised your billing price again.
|
| I used google groups as a temporary measure to post because my posts
| were not getting through via the 2 newsgroups services I was trying.
| We'll see if it now all works...

It seems giganews is working for you.

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|WARNING: Due to extreme spam, googlegroups.com is blocked. Due to ignorance |
| by the abuse department, bellsouth.net is blocked. If you post to |
| Usenet from these places, find another Usenet provider ASAP. |
| Phil Howard KA9WGN (email for humans: first name in lower case at ipal.net) |