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Thursday's announcement covers AT&T Inc., the nation's largest access provider, and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, the third largest. They follow similar agreements last month with Verizon Communications Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp. and Time Warner Cable Inc.
Although the agreements are with New York officials, they are expected to apply to all customers nationwide.
AT&T spokesman Marty Richter said the company would disabled all those with addresses starting with "alt.binary," which is where child-porn images are often exchanged.
But not all such groups have child pornography.
Thank you, AT&T. When I went to
alt.binaries.pictures.auto this morning, I was pleased to know that I would not accidentally see any child porn. Oh, and the fact that the auto group and the entire hierarchy that it belongs to was completely gone... well, that was just a minor inconvenience.