From: bsmith77@windstrream.net   
      
   "BelPowerslave"  wrote:   
   > Looks like Verizon just dropped it from their usenet service. It's been   
   > dead, real dead for a while now...but man, that's just depressing. :(   
      
   From what I understand, Verizon no longer provides   
   anything but the Big 8 newsgroups, as a result of   
   http://www.oag.state.ny.us/press/2008/june/june10a_08.html .   
      
   RelMark   
      
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