Woof. Obviously written by a myopic, lazy, "the world owes me anything
I want" dummy kiddie.
...
Post by lazIt has nothing to do with the names nor the content.
It? Nice writing style.
That is an
Post by lazexcuse we hear all the time.
That? That what?
After all, who is going to go out on
Post by lazthe limb to say that they enjoy the content in most all alt binary
sites?
Me. There are a few I enjoy and participate in. If you think that
means kiddie porn and the like, well, that's your right, wrong as it is.
The last I looked "alt" did not mean "illegal" or "offensive".
Whether it be music or pictures or movies. All are
Post by lazcontroversial so if content were the true issue, they would all be
No, all are not controversial; you need to look again at the list.
alt.comp.lang, alt.php, alt.basic, alt.msdos.batch.nt come readily to
mind. What's "controversial" about those? Want me to list another few
hundred or thousand? I could, but so could you if you had a brain cell
or two.
Post by lazcut. And they most likely will be by Verizon.
I'm talking ONLY about Verizon's lists. However, almost every other
decent list serves up the exact same subjects, add and drop the same
ones, so ... it's stupid to single out VZ. You have no actual idea why
many are dropped; that's obvious.
Jumping on the band
Post by lazwagon with the rest of the "MORAL MAJORITY" - right guys?
No, wrong. And what's with the "right guys?". Excluding women? "Guys"
is a freindly term and you are not my friend, not even an acquaintance;
just some static on a newsgroup.
Post by lazJust like you all did just before the damn War started.
Huh? What war? Wow, I bet you like to say "they" and "them" and
"those" a lot too, don't you?
A bunch of
Post by lazhypocrites - all of you.
Why? And do you think your opinion makes a micro-shit to anyone reading
your tripe? You're the only hypocritical actor here so far.
Post by lazMany Verizon customers came to Verizon because Company History HAD
been an open newsgroup policy - or maybe they just had more Balls all
those years. At least that was what we all were told by their rep
even back when DSL first became available.
Huh? I don't know what Verizon you talked to, or why one would choose a
server based solely on any statement like that when there are so many
other free ones out there that carry the same stuff VZ does/did, some
more, some less, but ALL under control of their respective operators,
same as you control your system.
Did you REALLY choose VZ because of its groups? If so, all I can say
is, well, get a life loser! Well, II think you are a loser, but more to
the point, I think you're a liar by innuendo and attempt to bait things
to go your way. Doesn't work with thinking people, you know.
Post by lazI left Comcast because when changed their newsgroup access, raised
prices, etc., and I was forced to get Giganews and elsewhere. We
We? Who is "we"? There is no "we".
Post by lazread that across the Country that many ISP's are starting to cut
high volume NGs to save bandwidth.
"read" where? In one of our own posts or somethning equally as
(un)reliable?
Well, even if it's true in some instances, so what? It's their right to
do that since they OWN the servers and CONTROL what their servers do and
serve.
IMO newsgroups aren't where priorities should be high anyway, so even
if a server decided to control access speeds, BFD; it's not really
important. When one's goals are to steal and othewise acquire
questionable content such as music and movies especially, I see nothing
wrong with throttling it down, especially in view of things like bit
torrents, multiple simultaneous connections, etc.. In fact, IMO, I see
no use of such material period and although I've used it a time or two
out of curiousity, I see no lasting value in such.
Your going from Comcast to VZ though, simply to access such
materials, is, well, a very stupid and ignorant decision showing your
lack of abilities to be a thinking person.
We hear that some drop their
Again , who is "we"? tinw
And who are "some". You seem to be attacking VZ but here and there
throw in a "some" and the like. Incredibly poor writing style.
Post by lazcustomers or force them with limited access because of their high
bandwidth usage. It sure appears that Verizon now is following the
same track. Save a little here and there.
IMO it's better than further price increases. VZ used to be the only
game in town here; but now they are not, but ... they still have the
best prices and server reliability in my experience. Unlike you, I
don't claim to know other's experiences or what they may think. You
want your opinions to be everyone's opinions. Sometimes it appears by
"everyone" you mean everyone on this server, then at othere, to mean any
server. You're really not making a lot of sense about anything anyway,
so I guess it doesn't matter.
As for me, if this
Post by lazcontinues, out of principle alone, once my two years are up...
There are plenty of options out there and new companies will emerge
that will be more than happy to take up the slack. If Verizon and
Comcast and all those "Disney" owned firms do not want Newsgroup
customers, they should not be offering the service in the first place.
Just another "Bate and Switch" marketing ploy.
"Bate"? Cute. You mean John Bates?
Personally I hope you manage to get out the door without getting your
sphincters caught in the mechanism when it closes behind you. Don't go
away mad, just go away. But that's enough with cliches.
I for one will never miss you and wish to thank you for the improvement
of this group by departing from it.
In addition, the short entertainment break I allowed myself to respond
to your troll bait is up, so I'll be leaving now and wont' be back to
troll, I mean, debate anything any further. Go ahead and flame all you
want; have a ball, but realize I don't care and won't be resonding to
you. Neither revenge nor animosity is my target; it's more giving back
in kind, and I'll bet that makes no sense to your puny little mind.
Post by lazPost by ROY!Post by catalpaAt least 23 groups have been dropped from the news server and I have no idea
which ones. I had 30,261 groups before I refreshed my group list
and only 30,238 after. I don't know what the peak number of groups
was as I haven't refreshed my group list in over a month. I don't
recall the number of groups
dropping before, other than when the Dutch dump groups and such were
eliminated years ago.
Anyone notice any missing groups?
Are you gonna be OK with only 30,238 to sift through?