"tenman" wrote in message
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Question:

Since the new group seems to be a newsgroup just like the others, how does
that help those of you whose ISPs no longer carry newsgroups?

I'm sure someone more knowlegeable than me will give you the real answer but
the way I look at this is that Usenet is a whole n'other internet than the
WWW. There are several internets, there's the World Wide Web, Usenet, and
ergh.. "others" left over from when the defense department & various
universities created the internet. That's why most URLs state "www."

Now, AFAIK ISPs really only have to provide access to www. Or maybe I
should say that they are taking the attitude that they do not have to
provide access to other internets. Especially since pornographers took over
teh Usenet binaries heirarchy. ISPs used to allow free access to companies
like Giganews etc. who in turn provided access to Usenet. ISPs like Comcast
dropped their business relationship with Giganews, making us have to find
other providers of Usenet access. Like subscribing to Giganews directly or
making Kye set up a server. I suppose Comcast feels that their hands are
clean of pornographic taint becasue they no longer have a business
relationship with a Usenet provider. We've already seen that many Usenet
providers will not carry the pornographic binaries hierarchies
(alt.binaries) They'll only carry text (rec. alt. etc) Pictures take up a
lot of computer space. Whether this means the end of Usenet etc will remain
to be seen.

Like I said this is very rudimentary. I hope this answers your question.

K Barrett