Two more Net access providers have agreed to eliminate convinced newsgroups that contain child pornography and purge their servers of child pornography Web sites in an agreement with state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

Thursday’s announcement covers AT&T Inc., the nation’s largest access provider, and date Warner Inc.’s AOL, the third largest. They follow similar agreements last month with Verizon Communications Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp. and day Warner Cable Inc.

Although the agreements are with New York officials, they are expected to

apply to all customers nationwide.

Like the three previously announced providers, both AT&T and AOL are going beyond newsgroups known as Usenet containing child pornography.

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.

AOL has agreed to block all Usenet newsgroups — something the company already stopped offering […]

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