On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:05:02 -0400, VOR wrote:

Help!! My ISP, AKA the assholes at AT&T, have removed ALL binary
newsgroups because they're supposedly trying to combat child porn. Is
there a way to continue to see the pictures in
alt.binaries.pictures.astro without going to a pay service? My other
options of course are to dump AT&T (seriously considering) or sign up
for Giganews for an additional $25/month.

Most of the free news servers don't carry binary groups. But you don't
have to pay anything like $25/mo for newsgroups. Forte (the folks who
produced Agent reader) offer excellent newsgroup connectivity for
$2.95/mo, on a fast server that carries every newsgroup, including
binaries. http://www.forteinc.com/apn/

Dumping AT&T is a good way to send a message, but check closely any
other ISPs you consider. Many of them are abandoning Usenet. Earthlink
is pretty good, and still operates a good news server, but I don't know
for how long. This whole stupid child porn thing has got all the ISPs
scrambling to cover their asses.
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com