mojo

Most ISPs at least try and provide a news service... to be honest, I wouldn't mind if it wasn't even very complete (like it used to be!) because these days with PAR2 and premium news servers it's not a problem.

Actually, by not providing a full news service, NTL are costing themselves and everyone else money. They end up paying more because people pull in more data from outside their network (which is what the equally ****e proxy cache system was supposed to reduce) from premium servers, and it costs their customers to pay for more bandwidth on the preimium services.

I think even the web proxies are the same. In theory it should save them external bandwidth, but in practice people have to keep hitting refresh so it just slows web browsing down for everyone.