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July 15th, 2008

Verizon offers details of Usenet deletion: alt.* groups, others gone

Verizon offers details of Usenet deletion: alt.* groups, others gone: “

Verizon Communications confirmed on Thursday that it will stop offering its customers access to tens of thousands of Usenet discussion areas, including the alt.* groups that have been a free-flowing area for discussions for over two decades.

Eric Rabe, a Verizon spokesman, said only a subset of discussion groups, …

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(Via The Iconoclast.)

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