The best that I can figure my provider is dropping this group. They will
only carry the "Big-8" groups. I suppose I will have to use one of the
free
news reader services or Google.
See yins around,
Paul P.
I have included the notice below:
Dear Verizon Online Customer,
As a Verizon Newsgroup service user, we wanted to let you know about some
im****tant changes that we will soon be making to our Newsgroup service.
On June 24, 2008, we will be modifying our Newsgroup offerings to only
offer
groups in the Big-8 Newsgroup hierarchies, which are listed below. The
0.verizon.* newsgroup hierarchy will also continue to be available. Users
will not be able to post or download from any other newsgroups using our
Newsgroup service.
comp.*
humanities.*
misc.*
news.*
rec.*
sci.*
soc.*
talk.*
More details regarding the Big 8 newsgroup hierarchies is available at:
http://www.big-8.org/.
This change will not affect your Internet access service. If you would
like
to subscribe to newsgroups other than those we offer, you will need to
subscribe to a separate commercial news service. Please note that your
use
of any such service is still subject to our Terms of Service and
Acceptable
Use Policy.
There are no changes required to your software, but you will need to
unsubscribe from all Newsgroups other than the Big 8 hierarchies and the
0.verizon.* hierarchy noted above. The following link explains how to
subscribe and unsubscribe in Outlook Express:
http://sup****t.microsoft.com/kb/171190
IM****TANT: If you continue to subscribe to unsup****ted newsgroups, you may
experience poor computer performance and slow throughput speeds. Failure
to
unsubscribe may also interfere with the functioning of the Verizon network
or use of the network by other Verizon users, which is a violation of our
Acceptable Use Policy.
We appreciate your business and look forward to continuing to serve you in
the future.
Sincerely,
Verizon Online
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