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[Chris Rebert]

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:54 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve at remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:43:58 +0000, Monte Milanuk wrote:
>> Decent NNTP access is harder to find.  Not impossible, but no longer a
>> 'free' part of most standard ISP access any more.
>
> I disagree. Since I've been on the Internet, over a decade now (what can
> I say? I was a slow starter), I've had three ISPs, and all three of them
> have provided NNTP access as a standard. One of them tried to cancel
> access to *binary* newsgroups, but they reversed that after customer
> complaints.
>
> I don't know what rubbish ISPs you're dealing with, or what country
> you're in, but not all ISPs in all countries are rubbish.

The US high-speed consumer ISP market isn't very competitive and some
players in the oligopoly are indeed rubbish WRT newsgroups. Case in
point: http://www.comcast.net/newsgroups/
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Cheers,
Chris
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