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Marcus Brutus wrote in message <35aeb449.96539262@news.alt.net>...
>>"D Outen" <ZdoutenZ@supernews.com> wrote:
>> -I'm an ex-IBMnet customer.
>
>  So am I.  Tried them out for several months and finally
>gave up on them in disgust--really.
>
>  There exceptionally poor usenet feed, and the very
>frequent downtimes on their very slow news servers
>was the primary reason I gave up on them.  I always
>have multiple accounts to compare and contrast
>newsfeeds--there's is very heavily censored on content
>not spam (like they claim).  Even for posts that did
>manage to appear they expired so quickly that you'd
>have to stay current every two days or so.  I was
>very surprised--I've always had a high opinion of
>IBM and continue to do so in most other areas.


Your comments would be true of IBMnet if you are describing last years
Usenet service.    They changed and are first class now.   I just left
recently.

>
>  And you've chosen yet another heavily filtered feed
>so you probably won't even see this message as
>it is critical of IBM and will be forged cancelled.
>
>                    Steve
>                    news.admin.censorship


I did see this message on Supernews.   I have seen messages in the
Supernews general group using descriptive adjectives to describe the
tech support staff.    The free for all that Usenet offered was
appealing to me.   Now that I've been there I realize that Usenet was
built as a cooperative venture with all parties exercising some
restraint.    Like all good things, some people are abusing their
welcome.    To keep Usenet as a viable option for discussion it is
therefore necessary to use a sledgehammer to keep some posters under
control.    Usenet won't survive with massive canceling and it won't
survive without it.    For now, cancels are a necessary evil.    Do you
have a solution?

Dave