24hoursupport.helpdesk
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: cannot send emails even to you

Subject: Re: cannot send emails even to you
From: Blinky the Shark
Date: 30 Jun 2006 17:31:35 GMT
Newsgroups: 24hoursupport.helpdesk
Ponder wrote:
> Hiya Blinky the Shark.
>
> In <news:slrnea9di8.ufm.no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:
>
>> Al lot of the UK may use it, but the UK is a small and strange little
>> kingdom -- I'd think one or two of the larger ISPs in the US might equal
>> them in membership just based on overall population size.  And we don't
>> see the constant ignoramushood by those ISP's members that we do NTLs.
>> And this group would be on the top of any ISP's Usenet list.
>
>   Yes, but ntl as an ISP also offer a news service whereas the largest US
> muppet magnet (AOL) now point people in the direction of Google News. I'm

I wasn't including AOL in my thinking, albeit I didn't express that
exclusion.

> not sure how many other ISPs do this but there's no doubt that the

Most of them, I'd say.  I was thinking Earthlink, Roadrunner, Comcast,
ATT, etc.  They may outsource news, but they still offer it.

> aforementioned web-based news service is without doubt a bigger source of
> idiots than ntl, though as you block the lot you'd not necessarily see that
> even though I'm in no doubt you're well aware of it ;)

Si.

-- 
Blinky                                                   RLU 297263 
Killing all posts from Google Groups
The Usenet Improvement Project: http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html
Coming Soon:  Filtering rules specific to various real news clients

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>
Privacy Policy