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Usenet user
June 17th 08, 12:30 AM
Time-Warner corporate is dropping usenet news as of June 23, 2008.

Please help by asking them to keep it. The person to call works for the TW president:

Barbara Burroughs
phone 203-351-2281

email:

** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **

Vaughn Simon
June 19th 08, 01:56 AM
"Usenet user" > wrote in message
...
> Time-Warner corporate is dropping usenet news as of June 23, 2008.
>
Relax. Take a deep breath. Set up a new account in your news reader with
the server: nntp.aioe.org. It is totally open, there is no need to even
register with them. Enjoy!

Vaughn

Martin Hotze[_2_]
June 19th 08, 10:15 AM
Vaughn Simon schrieb:
> "Usenet user" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Time-Warner corporate is dropping usenet news as of June 23, 2008.
>>
> Relax. Take a deep breath. Set up a new account in your news reader with
> the server: nntp.aioe.org. It is totally open, there is no need to even
> register with them. Enjoy!

thus it will become a spam source. someday. And then they might be cut
off the usenet.

#m
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of the places we are increasingly worried about is Europe."
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Martin Hotze[_2_]
June 19th 08, 08:19 PM
Gerry Caron schrieb:
> (...) notably in the number of articles per
> day that each IP address is authorized to post (25) and in the amount of
> connections that each client is able to establish (600) in a day before
> being banned.

do you know how botnets work?

#m

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