It isn't just Verizon. There is a big list of the major ISP's doing
the same thing. This will eventually kill off Usenet since Usenet is
not based on central servers but is distributed across multiple ISP
newsgroup servers. This was part of the strength of using it to
distribute pirate binaries since shutting out one point only meant a
piece of the whole file was lost for awhile until it would be picked
up at another point. Now, if all the major ISP's agree to not carry
those pieces, then those groups eventually dry up and disappear. The
only problem is that it will probably start taking down other non-
related newsgroups. Usenet has been dying for years anyway. It used to
be the place for historical computer events a long time ago. Google
groups has a reference showing historical computer events that
happened on. This is one list of firsts that happened on Usenet:
http://yak.net/fqa/297.html
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