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Kymmy 18-09-2009 10:30

Death of a newsgroup?
 
Anyone noticed that A.B.TV has collapsed over the last few weeks with most migrating to A.B.M ??

Anyone know of any reason for the move??

zing_deleted 18-09-2009 12:45

Re: Death of a newsgroup?
 
by M do you mean M or Multimedia? I have not noticed to be honest as I dont tend to read headers just use indexing sites

Kymmy 18-09-2009 17:41

Re: Death of a newsgroup?
 
Yep I meant multimedia...

I normally scan the headers int he morning for the last 24 hours as I find I miss stuff otherwise, but this last week I noticed on the searches that a lot of stuff is now on a.b.m and not on a.b.tv

punky 21-09-2009 13:37

Re: Death of a newsgroup?
 
BTW, it seems like a new newsgroup has popped up now: a.b.teevee. The TV show I want is cross-posting with a.b.mm and used to be cross-posted with a.b.tv and a.b.mm so it does look like its a replacement.

Maybe anti-piracy groups were targetting a.b.tv...

Taf 21-09-2009 14:22

Re: Death of a newsgroup?
 
Lots of passworded posts are being made all over the usenet..... this is driving people away from them, though some new ones have appeared where the trolls have yet to appear.

Damien 21-09-2009 16:12

Re: Death of a newsgroup?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by punky (Post 34875857)
BTW, it seems like a new newsgroup has popped up now: a.b.teevee. The TV show I want is cross-posting with a.b.mm and used to be cross-posted with a.b.tv and a.b.mm so it does look like its a replacement.

Maybe anti-piracy groups were targetting a.b.tv...

I noticed that, I am quite suspicious of A.b.teevee.

Kymmy 21-09-2009 17:35

Re: Death of a newsgroup?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Taf (Post 34875868)
Lots of passworded posts are being made all over the usenet..... this is driving people away from them, though some new ones have appeared where the trolls have yet to appear.

Never had a problem with the passworded posts idiots...

What does worry me is in other groups the amount of virus/trojan EXE posts where a download unrars into more RAR's headed by an EXE file. People then click the EXE file thinking they're unpacking the avi :(

Punky, thanks for the a.b.teevee info, will check it out :tu:


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