usenet

[Kurt Granroth]

On Wednesday 19 July 2006 11:57, Nathan England wrote:
> > Easynews is OK... I prefer NewsGuy. 10 bucks a month for all the porn^w
> > warez^w flamewars^w content I could possibly want.
> >
> > ~Ben
>
> That's great, except as a servant of my Lord Jesus Christ, I am looking for
> a decent news group, not a porn site.
> But thank you very much.

Hrm... Ben's comment was clearly done with tongue in cheek.  It's a take on 
the common belief that the only people that need a separate Usenet feed (like 
Easynews or Giganews or whatever) are trying to download bandwidth intensive 
binaries from the alt.binaries groups... which typically means porn or warez.  
This was back when most ISPs provided a limited Usenet feed which covered all 
of the major groups but almost never covered the binary groups.  Now that 
more and more are cutting that service entirely, it's possible that the 
stigma of using an external Usenet feed will go away.  Or not... who knows?