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SBC Internet Services will migrate its DSL Internet and dial-up customers to Prodigy-hosted newsgroup servers. As part of this change, SBC Internet Services will no longer offer some binary newsgroups. Groups that will not be offered are alt.binaries with some combination of the following suffixes: sounds, mp3, cd.image(s), movies, multimedia, warez, vcd, and dvd.
Customers will need to change their server settings by opening up their newsreader software. For example, if your server was originally news.snet.net, your new server will now be news.snet.sbcglobal.net. Please see
After evaluating our customers' newsgroup usage patterns and the cost of providing the service, and in combination with the threat of copyright infringement liability, we decided not to offer some alt.binary newsgroups.
Groups that will not be offered are alt.binaries with some combination of the following suffixes: sounds, mp3, cd.image(s), movies, multimedia, warez, and dvd. Due to their nature, these are the groups that contain multi-part postings of digital files that are likely to contain copyrighted material.
You can request a newsgroup by sending an email to
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