XPost: comp.mobile.ipad, comp.mobile.android   
   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , T0m $herman   
    wrote:   
   > On 3/1/2014 10:21 AM, Chris Uppal wrote:   
   > > Henry Wang wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> [...something...]   
   > >   
   > > Good to see that reports of the death of Usenet turn out to be premature.   
   >   
   > Too many ISP's dropped Usenet since they do not want it to compete for   
   > people's time, using the warez and child-pr0n excuses - but if the   
   > latter was the case they would only have dropped the binary groups and   
   > not all Usenet.   
      
   Originally my ISP dropped the binary newsgroups using that piracy and   
   porn excuse, as well as using it as a "fix" for their failing newsgroup   
   server (much less data, so the server simply took longer to fall over   
   each time) ... except they left half the piracy and porn binary   
   newsgroups still there, and deleted all the more legitimate binary   
   newsgroups. Later useless Vodafone New Zeland took over the ISP and   
   dropped newsgroups completely.   
      
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