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Warp2Search.net » News » February 2003 » NTL pulls plug on warez and drops some alt.binaries

NTL pulls plug on warez and drops some alt.binaries

Posted by: [NT] on: 02/01/2003 09:44 PM [ Print | 5 comment(s) ] · 1110 views

Ok this sucks, NTL have finally cracked under pressure... DESPITE THE WORDING of a small announcement claiming that it's all about performance, NTL seems to have the warez community in its crosshairs. Doubtless some users will be up in arms but NTL has decided to drop several alt.binaries from its news servers. Read the full story at : The Inquirer





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thefunkygibbon
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#41016 Posted on: 02/01/2003 09:51 PM
dispite what you read on the inquirer, ntl pulled a number of binary groups of late mainly because their news servers have been basically f****d over the past few months. they have removed the top dozen or so binary groups which obviously would have contributed to the problems.

i dont really agree with it myself, preffering that they should sort out their infrastructure rather than cut back/censor their service :(


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Lindz
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#41017 Posted on: 02/01/2003 10:00 PM
Im not sure I agree, the top few newsgroups they claim which have been pulled happen to be warez newsgroups, whilst they have left the higher bandwidth porn newsgroups in place. That seems a bit selective to me :)

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illumin
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#41019 Posted on: 02/01/2003 10:17 PM
Who uses their isps news server anyway. I most certainly dont. NTL has very crap retention (around 3 -6 days) on most news groups so this *should* hopefully improve this

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Brisk
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#41022 Posted on: 02/02/2003 12:16 AM
You call 3-6 days bad retention?! Blueyonder (NTL's cable rival in the UK) has an average retention of 36 hours!

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Waka
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#41037 Posted on: 02/02/2003 12:42 PM
Can anyone point me to a definitive list of newsgroups that ntl carry?
I've tried emailing their 'support' but got no help. I'm about to swap from bt adsl to ntls 1mb service...have I made a mistake?!

W.

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