AT&T Usenet Netnews Service Shutting Down
Sam Spade opined
wrote:
Please note that on or around July 15, 2009, AT&T will no longer be
offering access to the Usenet netnews service. If you wish to continue
reading Usenet newsgroups, access is available through third-party
vendors.
Posted only internally to AT&T Usenet Servers.
Moderated Usenet groups are living on borrowed time. Web-based forums,
many of which use software such as vBulletin, seem to be where it's all
going.
I suspect ISP administrators look at all the obscene trash and
name-calling that goes on in unmoderated Usenet groups, and conclude,
"Why should be serve as a portal to this trash?"
Which is too bad.
Text based newsgroups are fast, cheap, and easy to read.
-ash
Cthulhu in 2008!
Vote the greater evil.
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