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Originally Posted by Peach
IIRC they don't describe their newsgroups as a 'restricted service', when you sign up, I don't know of any other ISP that is restricting access in this way. Could be another reason to go ADSL.
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1) Nor do they describe them as unrestricted.
2) You'll struggle to find an ISP that offers a complete news feed, generally that's something confined to premium suppliers.
3) From the pure cold point of view if I were a service provider I'd be quite happy to see the back of large usenet downloaders and especially posters. The only things in the newsgroups that are missing are illegal and mostly DVD images, 4.7GB a pop, ouch
4) There are numerous premium pay usenet services, titannews, giganews, astraweb to name just 3.
5) NTL are not filtering the newsgroups on content, to do this would be to acknowledge that they are moderating their news feed and would give them liability if they don't at least try and remove all illegal content from the newsfeed (99.99% of the alt.binaries hierarchy).