Re: OT: X10 wall switch module turns itself on



Rich Webb wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:12:34 -0700, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Of course, the reduction in bandwidth and storage requirements had
*nothing* to do with it. Nope, no sir, not a thing.

It's a non-binary group with rather miniscule data volume. One movie on YouTube is probably more volume than a whole year of posts.

Truth. Still, it's probably easier just to dump all of alt.* (and its
associated load) than to cherry pick. Selective filtering of the
hierarchy could also open them up to legal problems (IANAL) if they move
from "common carrier" status to "publisher."


Strange thing is my ISP (AT&T) dumped a.b.s.e. but kept alt.lasers (I'd really miss that) and alt.home.automation plus lots of others. However, I understand that other ISPs did a blanket dump :-(

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