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date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:08:09 +0100,
group: alt.uk.virgin-net.oldbies
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alt.binaries.multimedia
Does anyone know if virgin have closed the alt.binaries.multimedia
group, there have been no new posts since the 5th.
date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:08:09 +0100
author: unknown
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Re: alt.binaries.multimedia
bob@aol.com wrote:
> Does anyone know if virgin have closed the alt.binaries.multimedia
> group, there have been no new posts since the 5th.
I was just able to subscribe to it bu there don't appear to be any posts
Alec
date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:00:26 +0100
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Re: alt.binaries.multimedia
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news:vuo5m.55509$1l2.39582@newsfe23.ams2...
> bob@aol.com wrote:
>> Does anyone know if virgin have closed the alt.binaries.multimedia
>> group, there have been no new posts since the 5th.
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> I was just able to subscribe to it bu there don't appear to be any posts
>
> Alec
Giganews shows over 99 million live headers for this newsgroup! And no, I
didn't bother to download them so I don't know how many are recent. The
potential bandwidth involved for this many binary postings is potentially
staggering. No wonder that Virgin have dropped it.
--
Dave (Sgt. Pepper) Epsom, England
My photo galleries at http://www.pbase.com/davecq
"I will not tolerate intolerance ... Doh!!"
date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 19:45:36 +0100
author: Dave \(Sgt. Pepper\)
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Re: alt.binaries.multimedia
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 19:45:36 +0100, "Dave \(Sgt. Pepper\)"
wrote:
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> wrote in message
>news:vuo5m.55509$1l2.39582@newsfe23.ams2...
>> bob@aol.com wrote:
>>> Does anyone know if virgin have closed the alt.binaries.multimedia
>>> group, there have been no new posts since the 5th.
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>> I was just able to subscribe to it bu there don't appear to be any posts
>>
>> Alec
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>Giganews shows over 99 million live headers for this newsgroup! And no, I
>didn't bother to download them so I don't know how many are recent. The
>potential bandwidth involved for this many binary postings is potentially
>staggering. No wonder that Virgin have dropped it.
Bill Dave,
thank you both for looking and replying.
yeah its a big group, and giganews hold a long retention, virgin
however used to retain postings for less than a week so cant be so
much of a overhead.
I suspect it was more to do with their recent campain on copyright
piracy, which coincided with their launch into the commercial mp3
market.
date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:56:05 +0100
author: unknown
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