I can easily put up with some downtime due to a glitch, or wait out a period of investigation, or allow some slack for a new system to catch up. But no explanation at all ?!? After about six emails to their support went utterly unanswered, with one billing period charged to me during the interim, I had to quit the “service”.

HEY - I understand that many of the mp3 newsgroups may be hosting illegal files. But policing that is not up to me. It’s not up to the newsgroup providers, either - they state in their original agreement that users are not to upload illegal material, and that if they are asked, they will supply the authorities with necessary information to prosecute. The proper thing to do, if service is going to be interrupted for any amount of time (for whatever reason), is to notify your customers - or risk losing them.

I suspect that this was a move by some mega-corporation to “help stop” the flow of “illegal” copyrighted files shared by “pirates”. I don’t know it for a fact, since I was never given an answer, and my research on the internet never gave me a solid enough lead to what was going on. But it sure seems like a “cutting off the nose to spite their face” kind of mentality, if that was the case.

My new newsgroup company has everything, and seems to have no problem continuing operations.

So there, Newsfeeds.

The rest of you - KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF MY INTERNET.