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So HN: what do you want your ISP to do better?

Provide NNTP service by default, like ISP's used to. Note: I don't personally care about the *.binaries stuff, I'd just like to see ISP's provide NNTP for access to text based newsgroups like comp.ai, comp.lang.c, and such-like. If they wanted to charge extra for *.binaries and guaranteed retention periods, that would be reasonable IMO.

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IMO higher-level services like Usenet, email hosting, and Web hosting don't belong in ISPs (which has mostly already happened). Non-binary Usenet seems so small by today's standards that the old federated model should no longer be needed and one big free public server should be enough.

I can appreciate that sentiment, even if I don't share it. And honestly, I don't really need web hosting from my ISP, although I can see how some people would find it handy for small scale personal sites. And I don't use my ISP's email service anyway, if they even still offer it (I've actually never used it, in 15+ years of being with these guys).

But I still kinda wish NNTP was provided "out of the box" by them so I don't have to futz around looking for an NNTP provider, signing up, managing yet another service, etc.

This is a neat idea, thank you!

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