Attorney generals trying to shut down usenet?

Not "censorship" at all. They no longer see carrying the other groups to be in their interest (i.e. "business decision").

So what? They don't have a gun to his head.

You haven't seen lies yet. Osama will be a beaut!

That's not all, it is a Big-8 newsgroup, but it may be topic sensitive.

You don't get it. Most cell providers get one to sign a one or two year contract with the purchase of the phone.

I merely stated that he has a case to nullify the contract without a penalty being legally imposed.

Is this an "islamic slip"? errr... Freudian slip? tee hee hee...

Did you not mean "Obama"?

No, a Teddy. ;-)

No, I meant to write "Osama", but same guy.

You're right. I don't get it. "It" being my Usenet (or any Interned, for that matter) connection via my cell phone.

Any contract that states that it includes those specific NGs, sure. Somehow I doubt...

People have tried that before and it's very hard to get your rights honored. But often (as in my case) they have a local monopoly. Sure you can swap ISP and still use Missy Bell's line but then they'll sock it to you because it's their lines.

No Cable ISP?

...Jim Thompson

You don't need to get a new ISP, unless you feel the need to protest. You can subscribe to a third party NSP, which will give you an account name and password that you put into your newsreader/browser and access is pretty much the same. Most news access is now through third party NSPs, but they use your IP address (and check with an authorization server at your ISP) to determine whether you need to go through the verification process or not.

Mark Zenier snipped-for-privacy@eskimo.com Googleproofaddress(account:mzenier provider:eskimo domain:com)

Yes, but prohibitively expensive if you don't also by their bundle.

"Land of the Free" ?

Now who used to say that?

martin

It is a free country, you don't have to subscribe to any of that.

The problem is the usual: A company gets monopoly right, oversight is, ahem, sub-optimal and then they can get away with a lot of things. Including some of your money ...

It refers to Liberty, not stuff that you don't have to pay for. Everything has a price, and the price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance; it's too bad that everbody seems to have forgotten what Freedom was. )-;

Thanks, Rich

Lemmie guess... you hate cable too, so you have DirectTardTV.

No, antenna.

Yeah, well... one gets what one pays for.

I watched billiards today. TV is a bigger part of my life than it apparently is in yours, and that is why I pay for cable services.

Once the switch to DTV is complete it'll be even less important because this stuff falls apart under multipath conditions. As I had predicted. Oh well.

The NSPs only look to the ISP for authorization for accounts through the ISP. For direct accounts you give userid/password seperately.