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Old June 9th 09, 12:40 AM posted to rec.aviation.ifr,sbcglobal.disgard
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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.

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Old June 11th 09, 02:49 AM posted to rec.aviation.ifr
Ash Wyllie
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Default 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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Old June 11th 09, 10:16 PM posted to rec.aviation.ifr
Paul Tomblin
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Default AT&T Usenet Netnews Service Shutting Down

In a previous article, "Ash Wyllie" said:
Sam Spade opined
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.


Not to mention the fact that they're all there, one login, one user
interface, no need to go hunting all over the net for one web site about
piloting and another about kayaking and another about programming.


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Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/
Knuth is definitely the ******* something from hell. I just admire him
from a distance, it's safer.
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