AT&T Usenet Netnews Service Shutting Down

[No Name]

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.

[Sam Spade]

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?"

[Ash Wyllie]

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.

[Paul Tomblin]

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.


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